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Recent Progress in Biosensors for Environmental Monitoring: A Review

2017; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Volume: 17; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3390/s17122918

ISSN

1424-8220

Autores

Celine I.L. Justino, Armando C. Duarte, Teresa Rocha‐Santos,

Tópico(s)

Biosensors and Analytical Detection

Resumo

The environmental monitoring has been one of the priorities at the European and global scale due to the close relationship between the environmental pollution and the human health/socioeconomic development. In this field, the biosensors have been widely employed as cost-effective, fast, in situ, and real-time analytical techniques. The need of portable, rapid, and smart biosensing devices explains the recent development of biosensors with new transduction materials, obtained from nanotechnology, and for multiplexed pollutant detection, involving multidisciplinary experts. This review article provides an update on recent progress in biosensors for the monitoring of air, water, and soil pollutants in real conditions such as pesticides, potentially toxic elements, and small organic molecules including toxins and endocrine disrupting chemicals.

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