Human health/socioeconomic development is closely correlated to environmental pollution,
highlighting the need to monitor contaminants in the real environment with reliable devices …

Water pollution and habitat degradation are the cause of increasing water scarcity and
decline in aquatic biodiversity. While the freshwater availability has been declining through …

Numerous kinds of biosensors do exist, but this chapter is confined to sensors and systems
where the information is gathered by the measurement of photons (rather than electrons as …

Recent advances in the development and application of biosensors for environmental
analysis and monitoring are reviewed in this article. Several examples of biosensors …

Since discovery and first use in the mid-1970s, evanescent wave fluorescence biosensors
have developed into a diverse range of instruments, each designed to meet a particular …

Microarrays provide a powerful analytical tool for the simultaneous detection of multiple
analytes in a single experiment. The specific affinity reaction of nucleic acids (hybridization) …

This handbook provides a systematic description of the principles, procedures, and
technology of the modern analytical techniques used in the detection, extraction, clean up …

There is currently a gap in the use of centrifugal microfluidics in the field of environmental
sensing. This review provides theoretical perspectives that have been demonstrated for …

Immunochemical techniques exhibit great advantages of high efficiency, rapidness,
reliability and low cost compared to instrumental methods for monitoring emerging organic …

A novel analytical system AWACSS (automated water analyser computer-supported system)
based on immunochemical technology has been developed that can measure several …