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Sensors for Water Quality Monitoring

A special issue of Chemosensors (ISSN 2227-9040). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Chemical Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2021) | Viewed by 3694

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Luís C. Coelho

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INESC TEC—Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science and Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
Interests: optical sensing; optical fiber flowmeter; optical fiber sensors; gas sensing; spectral; biosensor
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Dr. José Manuel M. M. de Almeida

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1. CAP/INESC TEC—Technology and Science and FCUP—Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal
2. Department of Physics, School of Sciences and Technology, University de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal
Interests: porto optical sensors; integrated optics; spectroscopy and biophysics
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The growing human activities in the field of mining, industry and intensive agricultural and livestock exploitation gave rise to increasing consumption of chemicals, pesticides and pharmaceutical products, which have become widely dispersed in the soil, watercourses and ground streams, with the risk of contaminating the environment and water for human consumption.

Monitoring water quality is becoming an important area of fundamental research and development of integrated systems. Sensors based on capillary electrophoresis, thin-layer chromatography, gas chromatography, fluorometric and colorimetric methods, ion chromatography, enzymatic methods, immunosensors, flow injection analysis and refractometric sensors have been around for a long time and, nonetheless, are constantly the object of dynamic and fruitful fundamental and applied research. Different monitoring techniques and modern monitoring devices and sensors allow researchers to get more in-depth information that could not be obtained before.

In this context, we invite you to submit manuscripts for the upcoming Special Issue dedicated to all aspects relevant to water quality monitoring. Full papers, communications, and reviews are welcome.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to collect advances in fundamental research and technology development, as well as innovative sensors for water monitoring, including different sensor platforms and configurations, sensing mechanisms and applications. Reviews must offer a critical overview of the state-of-the-art of fundamentals, technologies, and applications pertinent to water quality monitoring.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • physical, chemical and biological sensors;
  • sensors based on chromatography, electrophoresis, colorimetry, enzymes and antibodies;
  • optical fiber sensors relying on evanescent waves, plasmonics and spectroscopy;
  • theoretical and simulation studies;
  • multiplexing of several physical and chemical parameters;
  • sensor networking and distributed sensing;
  • applications, such as agricultural, livestock, food processing and aquaculture activities, harsh environments or monitoring of water-intensive industries

Dr. Luís Coelho
Prof. José Manuel Almeida
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • physical and chemical sensors and biosensors
  • colorimetry, evanescent wave and infrared spectroscopy
  • optical fiber- and plasmonic-based sensors
  • theoretical and simulation studies
  • multiplexing of several parameters
  • sensor networking and distributed sensing
  • sensor application to water systems

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Fabrication of an All-Solid-State Carbonate Ion-Selective Electrode with Carbon Film as Transducer and Its Preliminary Application in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Field Exploration
by Chuqing Zhang, Yang He, Jianbo Wu, Manqing Ai, Wei Cai, Ying Ye, Chunhui Tao, Pingping Zhang and Quan Jin
Chemosensors 2021, 9(8), 236; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors9080236 - 23 Aug 2021
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Real-time measurements of carbonate ion concentrations in the ocean are critical to advancing marine environmental monitoring and research into deep-sea hydrothermal activity. Herein, we report the first example of deep-sea hydrothermal field exploration using a carbonate ion-selective electrode (ISE). The novel carbonate ISE [...] Read more.
Real-time measurements of carbonate ion concentrations in the ocean are critical to advancing marine environmental monitoring and research into deep-sea hydrothermal activity. Herein, we report the first example of deep-sea hydrothermal field exploration using a carbonate ion-selective electrode (ISE). The novel carbonate ISE was composed of a Ni wire as substrate, carbon film as transducers and carbonate-selective membrane layers. This paper describes the preparation process of the electrode and characterises its performance via scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and electrochemical analysis. The detection limit of the electrode for CO32− is 2.821 × 10−6 mol/L, the linear response range is 1.0 × 10−5–1.0 × 10−1 mol/L and the Nernst slope was −30.4 mV/decade. In April 2021, the carbonate ISE was mounted on multi-parameter sensors with pH and Eh (redox) electrodes for the search of hydrothermal activity at the Southwest Indian Ridge. The simultaneous potential anomalies appeared at this carbonate electrode with the pH and Eh electrodes when passing through the hydrothermal field. The study of the hydrothermal field was supported by the in situ camera video and the sulphide samples. Additionally, the carbonate electrode provides enhanced information of water chemistry for the study of the hydrothermal field. Full article
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