Bioelectrochemical Sensors for Environmental Monitoring
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 March 2025 | Viewed by 142
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Interests: electrochemical sensors; chemical neuroscience; micro-nanofabrication; carbon nanomaterials; electrode development; environmental toxins monitoring; 3D printing; biosensors; neurodegenerative diseases; translational research; water treatment; commercialization
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Dear Colleagues,
Freshwater scarcity and contamination pose a global systemic risk due to climate change, population growth, and growing industrial and societal resource demands. Toxins derived from human activities, such as pharmaceutical drugs, endocrine disruptors, pesticides, heavy metals, solvents, and other pollutants in drinking water and wastewater, pose a serious threat to our freshwater resources as well as public and ecosystem health.
The evidence strongly indicates the urgent need for portable, mass-producible, affordable, rapid, and eco-friendly electrochemical sensor technology that can be used for large-scale, on-site detection of a wide range of environmental pollutants. It should provide accurate sensor metrics, such as satisfactory sensitivity, selectivity, limits of detection, linear range, reliability, and reproducibility. Electrochemical techniques such as voltammetry, combined with highly multiplexed microsensor arrays and portable battery-powered, Bluetooth-connected potentiostats, offer a practical way to directly measure different classes of environmental pollutants using a modified working microelectrode.
This special issue applies electrochemical sensors to environmental monitoring, including air, water, and soil. The areas of particular interest to this Special Issue include but are not limited to:
- Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors
- Electrochemical Detection Methods
- Electronic Tongue
- Electronic Nose
- Environmental Monitoring
- Heavy Metals
- Pesticides
- Electrode Materials
- (Additive) Manufacturing Techniques
- Electrochemical Data Analysis Methods
- Electrocatalysts
- Commercialization Challenges
- Sensor Designs
- Sustainability Considerations
- Advances in Sensing Sciences
- Environmental Considerations
- Nanomaterials
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Keywords
- electrochemical sensors and biosensors
- electrochemical detection methods
- electronic tongue
- electronic nose
- environmental monitoring
- heavy metals
- pesticides
- electrode materials
- (additive) manufacturing techniques
- electrochemical data analysis methods
- electrocatalysts
- commercialization challenges
- sensor designs
- sustainability considerations
- advances in sensing sciences
- environmental considerations
- nanomaterials
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