Sensors for Emerging Environmental Markers and Contaminants
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2019) | Viewed by 56304
Special Issue Editors
Interests: immobilization procedure of biomolecules; protein–DNA complexes; aptamer; enzymatic sensors; thick-film technology; nanodispensing technologies; micro-flow systems; carbon nanotubes; nanoparticles; nanocomposite polymers; molecular imprinted polymers; protein-polymer conjugates
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Interests: development of analytical methods for analysis of inorganic components in environmental, biological, industrial and food matrices; ion chromatography; spectrophotometry and spectrofluorimetry; flow injection and continuous flow analysis; atmospheric aerosol; snow and ice; surface waters; air quality; pollution sources; climate change; paleoclimate
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sensors and biosensors are being widely used in various research fields, ranging from clinical and pharmaceutical applications to industrial, food, and environmental ones. This is due to the many advantages associated with their use, such as analysis robustness, ability of providing real-time data, friendly use and cost effectiveness. They have become competitive with traditional analytical methods, especially for fast screening and continuous monitoring of key analytes in various environments.
In recent years, the rapid evolution of many human activities has caused a significant impact on the environment, with the release of new emerging contaminants, such as products of pharmaceutical and personal care and food industries. In this context, sensor-based assays, able to provide a fast screening of specific chemical compounds (also in low accessibility sites), represent powerful tools in order to highlight the presence of emerging pollutants at levels that can challenge environment sustainability or human health. Moreover, such portable and fast response devices for spotting variations in environmental markers (e.g., greenhouse gases, tracers of marine production or sea ice extent) are particularly relevant also for studies of current climatic changes in remote areas of the globe, as the polar regions, where natural and anthropic processes (as constantly growing industrial emissions all over the continents, biomass burnings) pose serious threat to those vulnerable areas and thus to the global climate.
We would like to invite you to participate by submitting both original research and review articles on novel sensors devoted to the determination of contaminants of emerging concern as well of chemical compounds that can be used to detect environmental changes in a fast way. This Special Issue aims to highlight the novel approaches in this rapidly-developing research area.
Prof. Giovanna Marrazza
Dr. Rita Traversi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sensors
- affinity biosensors
- catalytic biosensors
- wireless sensing devices
- environmental markers
- emerging pollutants
- air quality
- atmosphere
- water management
- climate change
- greenhouse gases