Bacteria-imprinted polymer

Fig. 8.1 Diagram showing the stages in the formation of bacteria-imprinted polymer beads.

Fig. 11.1 Imprinting of bacterial cells. Aqueous pre-polymers with attached affinity ligands (L) bind to bacteria. Introduction of an organic phase containing a diacid chloride and partitioning of the pre-polymer/cell complex to the interface results in polymerisation at and around the surface of bacteria.

Imprinting with high-molecular-weight biopolymers or even with bacteria. This is difficult high-molecular-weight compounds cannot be extracted from a highly crosslinked bulk polymer, and therefore a type of surface imprinting has to be applied. 

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