As an important chemical pollutant affecting the safety of agricultural products, the on-site
and efficient detection of pesticide residues has become a global trend and hotspot in …

Background Access to safe food is critical for human health. Therefore, efficient sensing of
hazardous substances in food is highly demanded. Hydrogels with three-dimensional …

Medicinal or herbal spices are grown in tropical moist evergreen forestland, surrounding
most of the tropical and subtropical regions of Eastern Himalayas in India (Sikkim …

Pesticides are meant to control and destroy the pests and weeds. They are classified into
different categories on the basis their origin and type of pest they target. Chemical pesticides …

Biosensor technology represents an extremely wide field with a great impact to healthcare,
environmental and food quality control. The aim of this review is limited to biosensors …

Hydrogels are highly biocompatible biomaterials composed of crosslinked three-
dimensional networks of hydrophilic polymers. Owing to their natural origin, polysaccharide …

Biological and synthetic recognition elements are at the heart of the majority of modern
bioreceptor assays. Traditionally, enzymes and antibodies have been integrated in the …

Electrode modifications for electrochemical sensors attract a lot of attention every year.
Among them, hydrogels are a relatively special class of electrode modifier. Since hydrogels …

The incompatibility of most organic solvents with acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibition
assay normally limits pesticide extraction efficiency in sample pretreatment, which might …

To date, hydrogels have gained attraction due to their inherent advantages such as wide
selection of precursors and additives, low toxicity, easy shape control, and biological …