Point of care (POC) testing is of great importance in rapid diagnosis of disease, monitoring
environmental pollutants, food safety analysis and other fields, especially in resource-limited …

Heavy metal pollution has severe threats to the ecological environment and human health.
Thus, it is urgent to achieve the rapid, selective, sensitive and portable detection of heavy …

Rapid screening of pathogenic bacteria contaminated foods is crucial to prevent food
poisoning. However, available methods for bacterial detection are still not ready for in-field …

Heavy metal pollution of water has become a global issue and is especially problematic in
some developing countries. Heavy metals are toxic to living organisms, even at very low …

Abstract Cadmium ion (Cd 2+) is one of the most crucial industrial pollutants that cause
serious harm to the human body. For rapidly and sensitively determining the concentration …

Food safety of aquatic products has attracted considerable attention worldwide. Although a
series of conventional bioassays and instrumental methods have been developed for the …

Devices of human-based senses such as e-noses, e-tongues and e-eyes can be used to
analyze different compounds in several food matrices. These sensors allow the detection of …

The integration of smartphones and microfluidics is nowadays the best possible route to
achieve effective point-of-need testing (PONT), a concept increasingly demanded in the …

Access to clean water for drinking, sanitation, and irrigation is a major sustainable
development goal of the United Nations. Thus, technologies for cleaning water and quality …

Abstract EDTA-etched CdTe@ CdS QDs were used as the specific recognition element and
signal probe of a fluorescence sensor or paper chip for the highly sensitive detection of Cd …