2025 April - 38 articles
Green banana flour has been gaining prominence as a functional food due to its high nutritional value and health benefits. However, its increasing commercialization has also raised concerns about adulteration, which can compromise both product qualit...
In this work, room-temperature UV-assisted ozone detection was investigated using ZnO nanoplates synthesized via precipitation, ultrasound-, ultrasonic tip-, and microwave-assisted hydrothermal (MAH) methods. X-ray diffraction confirmed the formation...
In this paper, peanut protein (PP) was used as the sole raw material for the preparation of fluorescent carbon dots (PP-CDs) by hydrothermal method. The PP-CDs exhibit good dispersibility, spherical-like shapes, and uniform sizes; the average particl...
The detection of hydrogen gas is crucial for both industrial fields, as a green energy carrier, and biomedical applications, where it is a biomarker for diagnosis. TiO2 nanomaterials are stable and sensitive to hydrogen gas, but their gas response ca...
Monitoring indoor air quality in schools is essential, particularly as children are highly vulnerable to air pollution. This study evaluates the performance of the low-cost sensor-based air quality monitoring system ENSENSIA, during a 3-week campaign...
Heavy metal ion (HMI) contamination poses significant threats to public health and environmental safety, necessitating advanced detection technologies that are rapid, sensitive, and field-deployable. While conventional methods like atomic absorption...
Organophosphate pesticides (OPs) enter the environment through various avenues, posing significant health risks. This highlights the need to monitor OPs in food and environmental samples. This study introduces an enzyme inhibition-mediated distance-b...
The development of cost-effective, rapid-response, and user-friendly biosensing platforms has become paramount importance for achieving precise biomarker quantification in early disease detection. Implementing timely diagnostic interventions through...
Mercury and explosives are well-known hazards that affect the environment and threaten society. Mercury generally exists as inorganic mercuric (Hg2+) salts, and its detection via fluorometric response is highly notable. Likewise, mainstream explosive...
The monitoring of contaminants in imitation jewelry has become important nowadays due to the high amount of products sold worldwide. Due to the complexity of the sample matrix (composed mainly of metals in high concentration), sample analysis can be...
Microplastics (MPs) and nanoplastics (NPs), which are widespread in many habitats as the byproducts of various industrial processes, pose considerable environmental and health hazards. However, current, conventional methods for detecting and characte...
The Monkeypox virus (MPXV), a DNA virus classified under the Orthpoxvirus genus alongside variola virus, has recently garnered significant global health attention due to its increasing transmission and emerging genomic mutations. Point-of-care testin...
Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) exhibits high toxicity and has the potential to induce cancer, deformities, and mutations. It is therefore highly desirable that sensitive and straightforward methods for detecting AFB1 be developed. In this study, due to the high...
To address the environmental hazards posed by oil spills and the limitations of conventional hydrocarbon monitoring techniques, a cost-effective and user-friendly gas sensor system was developed for the real-time detection and quantification of hydro...
Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) can be combined with optical fibers (OFs) to create various sensor configurations, yielding low-cost and highly sensitive extrinsic and intrinsic sensors. In this work, an MIP-based extrinsic optical fiber sensor...
In this study, an in situ electrochemical modulation method based on an ultramicro interdigitated array electrode (UIAE) sensor chip was developed for the detection of ammonia nitrogen (NH3-N) in neutral aqueous solutions. One comb of the UIAE was us...
This study aimed to quantify the bitter–astringent interactive perceived intensity (BAIPI) of green tea based on the Weber–Fechner law by two-alternative forced choice test. Caffeine, (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), and Quercetin-3...
Acetone is a well-known biogas involved in lipid metabolism and is considered a potential biomarker for diabetes. However, the conventional detection methods for acetone face the limitations of large size, complex usage, and cross-sensitivity. In thi...
Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) is extensively employed for detecting organics, where its sensitivity and selectivity are strongly influenced by the properties of the SERS substrates. In this work, a simple hydrothermal synthesis followed by...
This study aimed to thoroughly investigate the quality differences and influencing factors of Dahongpao tea of different grades. Through sensory evaluation, electronic nose analysis, electronic tongue analysis, biochemical component analysis, and HS-...
This study explores the development of a non-enzymatic electrochemical glucose sensor based on poly(3-aminobenzoic acid) (P3ABA) combined with silver nanoparticles (AgNPs). Incorporating AgNPs into the P3ABA matrix enhances the sensor’s electro...
There are many compounds used to treat cancer, but still, only 20% of proposed anticancer agents have been commercialized after clinical trials due to serious side effects and unsatisfactory results. To screen potential drugs precisely and quickly, t...
Gas chromatography–ion mobility spectrometry (GC-IMS) is a powerful technique in the field of food and flavor analysis specifically, as well as for the determination of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in general. It offers high sensitivity an...
This article outlines the method of creating electrodes for electrochemical sensors using hybrid nanostructures composed of graphene and conducting polymers with insertion of gold nanoparticles. The technology employed for graphene dispersion and sup...
Traditional detection methods such as atomic absorption spectroscopy offer high sensitivity and accuracy for heavy metal ion detection; however, they are often limited to laboratory environments due to bulky equipment and complex procedures. To meet...
A device was developed to study the evolution of fluorescence spectra as a function of time. A previously designed fluorimeter based on the diode array mini-spectrometer CM12880MA was used. The control and measurement were carried out by programming...
Bio-sniffers represent a novel detection technology that demonstrates significant potential in medical diagnostics. Specifically, they assess disease conditions and metabolic status through the detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in exhale...
In this study, a quantitative profiling method for detecting free fatty acids in crude lanolin based on the Quality by Design (QbD) concept was developed. High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) equipped with a charged aerosol detector (CAD) an...
The sensing of surfactants is a topic of interest for industrial and environmental purposes. Polydopamine-coated magnetite (Fe3O4@PDA) can be a relevant support for the detection of cationic surfactants in water samples. The negative charge in the su...
This paper focuses on the development of an environmentally friendly sequential injection (SI) method for the determination of chloride in water samples from dynamic water systems. Chloride quantification is highly relevant, as it may affect metal io...
MircroRNA (miRNA) exhibits abnormal expression in many cancer diseases, and the detection and analysis of miRNA are significant for the early diagnosis of diseases and research on miRNA functions. In this work, we construct a UV-triggered DNAzyme (UT...
Flexible, wearable biomedical sensors based on laser-induced graphene (LIG) have garnered significant attention due to a straightforward fabrication process and exceptional electrical and mechanical properties. However, most relevant studies rely on...
Notwithstanding the success of SnO2 as a fundamental material for gas sensing, it has often been criticized for its cross-sensitivity and high operational temperatures. Therefore, in this study, RF-sputtered SnO2 thin films were subjected to a modifi...
Monitoring hazardous gases is increasingly critical for environmental protection and human health. As a novel class of two-dimensional nanomaterials, layered metal chalcogenides have attracted substantial research attention in recent years. This is a...
This paper presents a low-cost wireless prototype designed for point-of-care DNA sensing based on square wave voltammetry (SWV) measurements. Unlike other designs found in the literature, this prototype employs dedicated ADC and DAC components to red...
Parabens (PBs) and bisphenols are endocrine disruptors (EDs) widely used in everyday products and associated with health issues, such as reproductive disorders, breast cancer, obesity, hypertension, and asthma. Hair has been proposed as an alternativ...
Our research outlines a method for creating chemosensors utilizing hybrid nanostructures derived from TiO2 ceramic nanotubes alongside conducting polymers, with embedded gold nanoparticles. The method used to create hybrid nanostructures from ceramic...
Glochidion chodoense, a rare and endangered plant endemic to Republic of Korea, is known for containing a wide variety of phytochemicals, including triterpenoid saponins and flavonoids. This study sought to profile the phytochemical composition of th...
