Electrosynthesized Surface-Imprinted Conducting Polymer Microrods for Selective Protein Recognition

Novel surface-imprinted conducting polymer microrods are shown to selectively recognize the template protein, as demonstrated by competitive binding assays using fluorescence detection. The electrochemical template synthesis provides means for controlled fabrication and spatial confinement of the PEDOT/PSS polymer proposed in this work, which exhibits extraordinary low nonspecific interactions and is effectively turned into a selective protein sorbent upon imprinting.