Tailoring a Dress to Single Protein Molecules: Proteins Can Do It Themselves through Localized Photo‐Polymerization and Molecular Imprinting

Molecularly imprinted polymer nanoparticles (MIP NPs) are antibody‐like recognition materials prepared by a template‐assisted synthesis. MIP NPs able to target biomolecules, like proteins, are under the spotlight for their great potential in medicine, but efficiently imprinting biological templates is still very challenging. Here we propose generating a molecular imprint in single NPs, by photochemically initiating the polymerization from...