Recent progress in biosensors for environmental monitoring: A review

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2017, Pages

  Justino, Celine I L ^a,b   Duarte, Armando C ^a   Rocha Santos, Teresa A P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO PIAGET   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Aptamers; Biosensors; Environmental monitoring; Enzymes; Pesticides; Pollutants

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODIES; BIOSENSORS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENZYMES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; PESTICIDES; POLLUTION; POLLUTION DETECTION;

APTAMERS; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTING CHEMICALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTIONS; POLLUTANT DETECTION; POLLUTANTS; POTENTIALLY TOXIC ELEMENTS; SMALL ORGANIC MOLECULES;

WATER POLLUTION;

PESTICIDE;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLLUTANT;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HUMANS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PESTICIDES;

EID: 85038381008     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s17122918     Document Type: Review

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