chapter 1 Molecular Imprinting—An Introduction / chapter 2 A Brief History of the ‘‘New Era’’ of Molecular Imprinting / chapter 3 The Noncovalent Approach / chapter 4 The Covalent and Other Stoichiometric Approaches Gu¨nter Wulff -- chapter 5 The Semi-Covalent Approach / chapter 6 The Use of Metal Coordination for Controlling the Microenvironment of Imprinted Polymers / chapter 7 Synthesis and Selection of Functional and Structural Monomers Olof Ramstro¨m -- chapter 8 Combinatorial Approaches to Molecular Imprinting / chapter 9 Surface Imprinting / chapter 10 Scaffold Imprinting / chapter 11 Imprinting in Inorganic Matrices / chapter 12 Post Modification of Imprinted Polymers / chapter 13 Molecular Imprinting Using Hybrid Materials as Host Matrices / chapter 14 Thermodynamic Considerations and the Use of Molecular Modeling as a Tool for Predicting MIP Performance / chapter 15 Selectivity in Molecularly Imprinted Matrices / chapter 16 Binding Isotherms / chapter 17 Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Beads / chapter 18 Molecularly Imprinted Polymer Films and Membranes / chapter 19 Micromonoliths and Microfabricated Molecularly Imprinted Polymers / chapter 20 Chromatographic Techniques / chapter 21 Capillary Electrophoresis / chapter 22 Metal Ion Selective Molecularly Imprinted Materials / chapter 23 Solid Phase Extraction and By-Product Removal / chapter 24 Applications of Molecularly Imprinted Materials as Enzyme Mimics / chapter 25 Application of MIPs as Antibody Mimics in Immunoassays / chapter 26 Molecularly Imprinted Polymers as Recognition Elements in Sensors: Mass and Electrochemical Sensors / chapter 27 Molecularly Imprinted Polymers as Recognition Elements in Optical Sensors