Molecular imprinting technology (MIT), often described as a method of making a molecular lock to match a molecular key, is a technique for the creation of molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) with tailor-made binding sites complementary to the template molecules in shape, size and functional groups. Owing to their unique features of structure predictability, recognition specificity and application universality, MIPs have found a wide range of applications in various fields. Herein, we propose to comprehensively review the recent advances in molecular imprinting including versatile perspectives and applications, concerning novel preparation technologies and strategies of MIT, and highlight the applications of MIPs. The fundamentals of MIPs involving essential elements, preparation procedures and characterization methods are briefly outlined. Smart MIT for MIPs is especially highlighted including ingenious MIT (surface imprinting, nanoimprinting, etc.), special strategies of MIT (dummy imprinting, segment imprinting, etc.) and stimuli-responsive MIT (single/dual/multi-responsive technology). By virtue of smart MIT, new formatted MIPs gain popularity for versatile applications, including sample pretreatment/chromatographic separation (solid phase extraction, monolithic column chromatography, etc.) and chemical/biological sensing (electrochemical sensing, fluorescence sensing, etc.). Finally, we propose the remaining challenges and future perspectives to accelerate the development of MIT, and to utilize it for further developing versatile MIPs with a wide range of applications (650 references).

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Molecular imprinting: perspectives and applications

Distribution and importance of microplastics in the marine environment: A review of the sources, fate, effects, and potential solutions

Marine microplastic debris: An emerging issue for food security, food safety and human health.

Microplastics in sediments: A review of techniques, occurrence and effects.

Biosensors are nowadays ubiquitous in biomedical diagnosis as well as a wide range of other areas such as point-of-care monitoring of treatment and disease progression, environmental monitoring, food control, drug discovery, forensics and biomedical research. A wide range of techniques can be used for the development of biosensors. Their coupling with high-affinity biomolecules allows the sensitive and selective detection of a range of analytes. We give a general introduction to biosensors and biosensing technologies, including a brief historical overview, introducing key developments in the field and illustrating the breadth of biomolecular sensing strategies and the expansion of nanotechnological approaches that are now available.

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Introduction to biosensors.

Microplastic contamination in brown shrimp (Crangon crangon, Linnaeus 1758) from coastal waters of the Southern North Sea and Channel area.

Recent advances in recognition elements of food and environmental biosensors: a review

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Prevalence data of fish diseases and parasitic infections on wild marine fish were collected on the Belgian Part of the North Sea during the years 1996-2011. The assessment of prevalence focused on externally visible diseases and parasites of the body, skin, gill and fins. In addition to the externally visible diseases, tissue related diseases were evaluated. Therefore, livers were excised and inspected for the occurrence of visible tumours and other external diseases. The assessment of fish diseases was based on guidelines recommended by ICES (Bucke et al., 1996).

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Microplastic contamination in brown shrimp (Crangon crangon, Linnaeus 1758) from coastal waters of the Southern North Sea and Channel area.

Recent advances in recognition elements of food and environmental biosensors: a review

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Patterns and prevalence of marine fish diseases and parasites

Marine toxins in North Sea Crabs (Cancer pagurus)