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Lipid Membrane Nanosensors for Environmental Monitoring: The Art, the Opportunities, and the Challenges

The advent of nanotechnology has brought along new materials, techniques, and concepts, readily adaptable to lipid membrane-based biosensing. The transition from micro-sensors to nano-sensors is neither straightforward nor effortless, yet it leads to devices with superior analytical characteristics:...

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Autores principales: Nikoleli, Georgia-Paraskevi, Nikolelis, Dimitrios, Siontorou, Christina G., Karapetis, Stephanos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5796373/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29346326
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18010284
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author Nikoleli, Georgia-Paraskevi
Nikolelis, Dimitrios
Siontorou, Christina G.
Karapetis, Stephanos
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description The advent of nanotechnology has brought along new materials, techniques, and concepts, readily adaptable to lipid membrane-based biosensing. The transition from micro-sensors to nano-sensors is neither straightforward nor effortless, yet it leads to devices with superior analytical characteristics: ultra-low detectability, small sample volumes, better capabilities for integration, and more available bioelements and processes. Environmental monitoring remains a complicated field dealing with a large variety of pollutants, several decomposition products, or secondary chemicals produced ad hoc in the short- or medium term, many sub-systems affected variously, and many processes largely unknown. The new generation of lipid membranes, i.e., nanosensors, has the potential for developing monitors with site-specific analytical performance and operational stability, as well as analyte-tailored types of responses. This review presents the state-of-the art, the opportunities for niche applicability, and the challenges that lie ahead.
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spelling pubmed-57963732018-02-13 Lipid Membrane Nanosensors for Environmental Monitoring: The Art, the Opportunities, and the Challenges Nikoleli, Georgia-Paraskevi Nikolelis, Dimitrios Siontorou, Christina G. Karapetis, Stephanos Sensors (Basel) Review The advent of nanotechnology has brought along new materials, techniques, and concepts, readily adaptable to lipid membrane-based biosensing. The transition from micro-sensors to nano-sensors is neither straightforward nor effortless, yet it leads to devices with superior analytical characteristics: ultra-low detectability, small sample volumes, better capabilities for integration, and more available bioelements and processes. Environmental monitoring remains a complicated field dealing with a large variety of pollutants, several decomposition products, or secondary chemicals produced ad hoc in the short- or medium term, many sub-systems affected variously, and many processes largely unknown. The new generation of lipid membranes, i.e., nanosensors, has the potential for developing monitors with site-specific analytical performance and operational stability, as well as analyte-tailored types of responses. This review presents the state-of-the art, the opportunities for niche applicability, and the challenges that lie ahead. MDPI 2018-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5796373/ /pubmed/29346326 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18010284 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Lipid Membrane Nanosensors for Environmental Monitoring: The Art, the Opportunities, and the Challenges
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5796373/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29346326
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18010284
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