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Nanomaterial enabled sensors for environmental contaminants
The need and desire to understand the environment, especially the quality of one’s local water and air, has continued to expand with the emergence of the digital age. The bottleneck in understanding the environment has switched from being able to store all of the data collected to collecting enough...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6249933/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30466465 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12951-018-0419-1 |
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author | Willner, Marjorie R. Vikesland, Peter J. |
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description | The need and desire to understand the environment, especially the quality of one’s local water and air, has continued to expand with the emergence of the digital age. The bottleneck in understanding the environment has switched from being able to store all of the data collected to collecting enough data on a broad range of contaminants of environmental concern. Nanomaterial enabled sensors represent a suite of technologies developed over the last 15 years for the highly specific and sensitive detection of environmental contaminants. With the promise of facile, low cost, field-deployable technology, the ability to quantitatively understand nature in a systematic way will soon be a reality. In this review, we first introduce nanosensor design before exploring the application of nanosensors for the detection of three classes of environmental contaminants: pesticides, heavy metals, and pathogens. |
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spelling | pubmed-62499332018-11-26 Nanomaterial enabled sensors for environmental contaminants Willner, Marjorie R. Vikesland, Peter J. J Nanobiotechnology Review The need and desire to understand the environment, especially the quality of one’s local water and air, has continued to expand with the emergence of the digital age. The bottleneck in understanding the environment has switched from being able to store all of the data collected to collecting enough data on a broad range of contaminants of environmental concern. Nanomaterial enabled sensors represent a suite of technologies developed over the last 15 years for the highly specific and sensitive detection of environmental contaminants. With the promise of facile, low cost, field-deployable technology, the ability to quantitatively understand nature in a systematic way will soon be a reality. In this review, we first introduce nanosensor design before exploring the application of nanosensors for the detection of three classes of environmental contaminants: pesticides, heavy metals, and pathogens. BioMed Central 2018-11-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6249933/ /pubmed/30466465 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12951-018-0419-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Review Willner, Marjorie R. Vikesland, Peter J. Nanomaterial enabled sensors for environmental contaminants |
title | Nanomaterial enabled sensors for environmental contaminants |
title_full | Nanomaterial enabled sensors for environmental contaminants |
title_fullStr | Nanomaterial enabled sensors for environmental contaminants |
title_full_unstemmed | Nanomaterial enabled sensors for environmental contaminants |
title_short | Nanomaterial enabled sensors for environmental contaminants |
title_sort | nanomaterial enabled sensors for environmental contaminants |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6249933/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30466465 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12951-018-0419-1 |
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