ABSTRACT
The generation of molecular imprints at surfaces is one of the most active areas of research in this rapidly growing scienti¢c ¢eld. This is partly because surfaces and interfaces are crucially important in industrial and biomedical applications such as separations, catalysis, and membrane ¢ltration, but also through a growing realization that molecular recognition phenomena in general are strongly dependent on the surface chemistry of the host^guest interface. There are many di¡erent techniques being devised to imprint surfaces as a result of the great variety of formats and application for these materials, but in most cases there are distinct advantages of an imprinted surface compared to that of a conventional^ imprinted polymer targeted towards the same template.
