Abstract
implementing bioanalogous recognition properties within man-made materials opens up the way for generating highly functional yet robust matrices that can e.g. be applied as chemical sensor layers. Triazine pesticides for instance are suitable templates for generating selective recognition sites in more polar systems such as polyacrylic acids. As coatings on a quartz crystal microbalance, they can be utilized for detection of atrazine in water down to the low ppb level. Selectivities of the resulting materials can be appreciably high: terpenes can be distinguished by at least a factor of threes which can be utilized for characterization of a terpene emission pattern from different plant materials directly on-line.