A biosensor is an integrated receptor-transducer device, which can convert a biological
response into an electrical signal. The design and development of biosensors have taken a …

Biosensors are modern engineering tools that can be widely used for various technological
applications. In the recent past, biosensors have been widely used in a broad application …

Heavy metal pollution has become more and more serious with industrial development and
resource exploitation. Because heavy metal ions are difficult to be biodegraded, they …

Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) have generated keen interest among researchers in recent years
due to their excellent physicochemical properties. In general, GNPs are biocompatible …

With the advancement of functional nanomaterials and aptamer selection technologies,
aptamer functionalized nanomaterials (AFMs) open various methods to design new sensing …

Due to their relative synthetic and chemical simplicity compared to antibodies, aptamers
afford enhanced stability and functionality for the detection of environmental contaminants …

The combination of nanomaterials (NMs) and aptamers into aptasensors enables highly
specific and sensitive detection of diverse pollutants. The great potential of aptasensors is …

Aptamers are single-stranded oligonucleotides that link to various substrates with great
affinity and selectivity, including small molecules, peptides, proteins, cells, and tissues. For …

A novel bimetallic CoNi-based metal–organic framework (CoNi-MOF) was prepared using 2,
2′-bipyridine-5, 5′-dicarboxylic acid (dcbpy) as the building block and acted applied as …

Heavy metal and metalloid poisoning in the environment and food has piqued the public's
interest since it poses significant hazards to the ecological system and human health. In …