A new polymer to capture nicotine molecules and analogue structures has been designed and fabricated by researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPC PAS) and the Department of Chemistry, Wichita State University, USA. The polymer contains a structure of molecular pincers designed several years ago by the US research team. Now the Polish-American collaboration has resulted in the fixation of the pincers inside a polymer. This substance is solid, so it can be used to construct chemosensors for determination of nicotine for industrial or biomedical purposes.
