Bacteria-templated fabrication of a charge heterogeneous polymeric interface for highly specific bacterial recognition.

Using bacteria-templated polymerization, a novel bacteria-imprinted polymer (BIP) was fabricated for bacterial recognition. Charge distribution on bacterial outer surfaces was encoded into charge heterogeneous polymeric interfaces on BIPs as chemical imprints. Through integrating with a microfluidic chip, the synthesized BIPs exhibited excellent performance for fast bacterial recognition.