Division of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Lund University, Box 124, 22100 Lund, Sweden.
J Mol Recognit. 2012 Jun;25(6):370-6. doi: 10.1002/jmr.2161.
Molecularly imprinted nanomaterials are gaining substantial importance. As a simple and efficient synthetic method, precipitation polymerization has been used to prepare uniform molecularly imprinted microspheres for numerous template compounds. Despite of its general applicability, the difficulty of obtaining uniform particles for some difficult templates by precipitation polymerization has been reported. In this work, we attempted to produce uniform atrazine-imprinted nanoparticles using propranolol as an auxiliary template under standard precipitation polymerization condition. When propranolol was added in the prepolymerization mixture for atrazine imprinting, it displayed a significant effect on particle size and size distribution of atrazine-imprinted polymers. The molecular binding characteristics of the molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) nanoparticles were found to be dependent on the relative ratios of the two templates. Under an optimal template propranolol-atrazine ratio of 1:3 mol/mol, very uniform imprinted nanoparticles (d(H) = 106 nm) with a polydispersity index of 0.07 were obtained. The loading of the auxiliary template (propranolol) could be reduced to as low as 5% without sacrificing the uniformity of the MIP nanoparticles. The uniform MIP nanoparticles could be easily encapsulated into polyethylene terephthalate nanofibers using a simple electrospinning technique. The composite nanofibers containing the MIP nanoparticles maintained specific molecular binding capability for both atrazine and propranolol.
分子印迹纳米材料越来越受到重视。沉淀聚合法作为一种简单高效的合成方法,已被用于制备用于多种模板化合物的均匀的分子印迹微球。尽管其适用性广泛,但据报道,对于一些难以获得均匀颗粒的模板,沉淀聚合法存在困难。在这项工作中,我们试图在标准沉淀聚合条件下使用普萘洛尔作为辅助模板来制备均一的莠去津印迹纳米颗粒。当普萘洛尔被添加到莠去津印迹的预聚合混合物中时,它对莠去津印迹聚合物的粒径和粒径分布有显著影响。发现印迹聚合物(MIP)纳米颗粒的分子结合特性取决于两种模板的相对比例。在最佳模板普萘洛尔-莠去津摩尔比为 1:3 时,可得到非常均匀的印迹纳米颗粒(d(H) = 106nm),多分散指数为 0.07。辅助模板(普萘洛尔)的负载量可降低至 5%以下,而不会牺牲 MIP 纳米颗粒的均匀性。均匀的 MIP 纳米颗粒可以使用简单的静电纺丝技术轻松封装到聚对苯二甲酸乙二醇酯纳米纤维中。含有 MIP 纳米颗粒的复合纳米纤维保持了对莠去津和普萘洛尔的特异性分子结合能力。