https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.10248
Porous polymer sorbent with synthetic recognition sites with a high specificity for the sorption of a targeted compound or group of structurally-related compounds.
Note: The imprint is obtained by the co-polymerization of functional and crosslinking monomers in the presence of a template molecule (the analyte) and a porogen. The resultant imprint possesses a steric (size and shape) and chemical (spatial arrangement of complementary functional groups) memory of the template molecule that enable the sorbent to selectively rebind the template molecule from a complex matrix.