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Book title: Nanotechnology: Food and Environmental Paradigm
Editors: Prasad R, Kumar V, Kumar M
Publisher: Springer Singapore
City: Singapore
ISBN: 978-981-10-4678-0

Abstract: The application of biosensors and diagnostics for food safety and quality continues to attract wide attention. Nevertheless, possible drawbacks of reliability, sensitivity and specificity in some complex foods matrices have limited their commercialisation in this field. With the developments in nanotechnology and the ability to synthesise novel nanomaterials with enhanced physical and chemical properties for diverse applications, their use in biosensor fabrication has revolutionised the technology and helped in overcoming some of these problems. The development of biomimics as nano molecular imprinting polymers (nanoMIPs) to replace antibodies as the sensing material in biosensors is overcoming problems of stability, sensitivity and cost associated with biomolecule-based sensors for specific applications. Nowadays nanoMIPs are being synthesised for a range of analytes detection including microorganisms and their toxins, environmental contaminants, pharmaceuticals and allergens. Many have shown potential application in the detection of these analytes in a range of matrices including food samples. In this chapter the design and synthesis of nanoMIPs and their use in the development of sensors and diagnostics and their application for foods sensing application will be reviewed and discussed
Template and target information: Review - MIPs(nano) in food analysis
Author keywords: nanomaterials, molecular imprinted polymers, NanoMIPs, Biosensors, Food sensing