Enhanced Agricultural Monitoring by Molecularly Imprinted Carbonaceous Nanomaterials

Molecular imprinted polymer (MIPs) invaluable technic for detecting or extraction analysts from complexes samples like food and soil due to the recognition sites at MIPs surface. Introducing carbon nanomaterials (C-NMs) to MIPs enables us to enhance the selectivity, sensitivity, reproducibility and stability of designed MIPs/ C-NMs. C-NMs have varieties and biocompatibility, in addition to high surface area, low cost, simple preparation and environmentally friendly. The coupling of MIPs systems with C-NMs permits us to create different types of sensing technic such as electrochemical, photoelectrochemical, chemiluminescence, electrochemiluminescence and other sensors. MIPs/C-NMs also approve excellent ability to produce nano-adsorbent with great ability to combined with higher analytical instruments such as GC, HPLC and GC-MS. Therefore, in this chapter all recent MIPs/C-NMs materials and techniques which were created to monitor different types of pesticides and Aflatoxins were described and compared. Their performance and limitations also were highlighted.