Preparing and characterization of a new ion imprinted polymer for removing of Zinc ion

Molecular imprinting is a powerful and usefulmethod for preparing polymeric materials with artificial receptors like binding sites for a variety rang of templates, and the polymersprepared with this technique, molecular imprinted polymers (MIPs), have been applied as materials of molecularrecognition inseveraldifferentanalytical techniques, such ashigh-performance liquid chromatography(HPLC), solidphase extraction (SPE), membrane separations, sensors, drugreleases, catalysts, etc [1-3]. Zinc is one of most essential element for good health, although it isoneofthemostimportantessential trace elementsin human nutrition but Excessive absorption of zinc suppresses copper and iron absorption [4]. In this work, a new ion-imprinted polymer used for selective extraction and preconcentrationofZn(II) ions was synthesized.