Applied Nanosensors for Food Toxicants and Environmental Pollutants Ⅱ
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 410
Special Issue Editors
Interests: analytical chemistry; nanotechnology; chemical sensors; food analysis and safety; environmental monitoring; bioanalysis; biochemical processes; biomembranes; artificial and natural receptors; lipid film-based sensors; insecticides; pesticides; doping materials; toxins; toxicants; pathogens; antibodies; enzymes; analysis of fruits and vegetables; analysis of dairy products; gas pollutants; atmospheric chemistry; differential scanning calorimetry; electroanalysis; IR and Raman spectroscopy; new materials; scanning electron microscopy; electron scanning microscopy; TEM; technological sciences; physical sciences
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Interests: biosensors; analytical and environmental chemistry; nanotechnology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Toxicants in the food chain and environmental pollutants remain a threatening issue for public health and to human life. The use of simple, fast, reliable, cost-effective detectors in the field and in real time are indispensable. Food toxicants, such as toxins, antibiotics, allergens, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), hormones, pesticides, insecticides, etc., are formed during food processing, are naturally occurring, or are added into foods. Public and ecosystem health may be seriously damaged by a variety of environmental pollutants, both organic and inorganic, having short-, medium-, or long-term effects that currently cannot be adequately monitored in the environment. The main reasons are the inability to monitor the fate of pollutants entering any given ecosystem, as well as technological constraints on both field instrumentation and trace detection. Nanobiosensors have thus far presented an incredible potential tool for rapid identification and detection of a variety of food toxicants, environmental pollutants, and pollution degradation products, utilizing a wide range of detection methodologies and transduction strategies. Multiplex analyses might become a reality in the near future, utilizing small-sized, hand-held detectors with increased reliability of measurements. This Special Issue wishes to publish work on such potential and current novel nanobiosensors that are suitable for food toxicant and environmental pollutant detection and monitoring. Emphasis will be placed upon sensor construction, analytical development, implementation in real samples, operation conditions, material design, and engineering. Given the complex nature of the samples, papers on modeling and the uncertainty of measurements are also welcome.
Dr. Georgia-Paraskevi Nikoleli
Prof. Dr. Dimitrios P. Nikolelis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Biosensor
- Nanotechnology
- Real-Time Monitoring
- In-Field Detection
- Food Toxicants
- Pollutant Monitoring
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