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Chemosensors, Volume 7, Issue 1

2019 March - 16 articles

Cover Story: Mycotoxins are secondary fungal metabolites that pose a serious threat to food safety. Conventional methods for their detection include gas or liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry or other detectors, thin layer chromatography, and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. These techniques are straightforward and reliable; however, they are time-consuming, require extensive preparation steps and large-scale instrumentation, and employ hazardous chemicals. The rapid detection of mycotoxins is a challenge, and several studies have aimed at the development of faster, cheaper, and portable sensing devices. These include the use of microarray chips, multiplex lateral flow, and surface plasmon resonance, among others. Recently, thin-film sensors have emerged as a good candidate, and this review summarizes the use of such devices for mycotoxin detection in food matrices. View this paper
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Articles (16)

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,095 Views
10 Pages

Handheld Enzymatic Luminescent Biosensor for Rapid Detection of Heavy Metals in Water Samples

  • Kirill A. Lukyanenko,
  • Ivan A. Denisov,
  • Vladimir V. Sorokin,
  • Anton S. Yakimov,
  • Elena N. Esimbekova and
  • Peter I. Belobrov

Enzymatic luminescent systems are a promising tool for rapid detection of heavy metals ions for water quality assessment. Nevertheless, their widespread use is limited by the lack of test procedure automation and available sensitive handheld luminome...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,456 Views
12 Pages

Herein, the collective effects of spin polarization in a degenerate electron gas of an arbitrary space dimension are discussed. We consider these low-dimensional systems in light of potential wells (rectangular or cylindrical), and as a two- or one-d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,280 Views
20 Pages

Long- and Short-Range Ordered Gold Nanoholes as Large-Area Optical Transducers in Sensing Applications

  • Maura Cesaria,
  • Adriano Colombelli,
  • Daniela Lospinoso,
  • Antonietta Taurino,
  • Enrico Melissano,
  • Roberto Rella and
  • Maria Grazia Manera

Unconventional lithography (such as nanosphere lithography (NSL) and colloidal lithography (CL)) is an attractive alternative to sequential and very expensive conventional lithography for the low-cost fabrication of large-area nano-optical devices. A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,803 Views
13 Pages

Electrochemical Glucose Quantification as a Strategy for Ethanolic Fermentation Monitoring

  • Isabel Acevedo-Restrepo,
  • Lucas Blandón-Naranjo,
  • Jorge Hoyos-Arbeláez,
  • Flavio Della Pelle and
  • Mario V. Vázquez

The possibility of using an electrochemical biosensor, using screen-printed electrodes modified with a carbonaceous material and a commercial kit for the determination of glucose, to monitor an ethanolic fermentation was analyzed. The determination i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,961 Views
12 Pages

Porous Gig-Lox TiO2 Doped with N2 at Room Temperature for P-Type Response to Ethanol

  • Emanuele Smecca,
  • Salvatore Sanzaro,
  • Clelia Galati,
  • Lucio Renna,
  • Leonardo Gervasi,
  • Antonello Santangelo,
  • Guglielmo Guido Condorelli,
  • David Grosso,
  • Thomas Bottein and
  • Alessandra Alberti
  • + 2 authors

Nanostructured materials represent a breakthrough in many fields of application. Above all for sensing, the use of nanostructures with a high surface/volume ratio is strategic to raise the sensitivity towards dangerous environmental gas species. A ne...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,219 Views
8 Pages

Sensors Based on Amino Group Surface-Modified CNTs

  • Natalia Boroznina,
  • Irina Zaporotskova,
  • Sergey Boroznin and
  • Evgeniy Dryuchkov

This article discusses the possibility of the fabrication of a highly sensitive sensor based on single-walled carbon nanotubes surface modified with functional amino groups (-NH2). The sensor potential for detection of alkali (sodium, lithium, and po...

  • Review
  • Open Access
56 Citations
6,838 Views
29 Pages

Modern analysis of food and feed is mostly focused on development of fast and reliable portable devices intended for field applications. In this review, electrochemical biosensors based on immunological reactions and aptamers are considered in the de...

  • Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
10,965 Views
47 Pages

Review on Nanomaterial-Based Melamine Detection

  • Muthaiah Shellaiah and
  • Kien Wen Sun

Illegal adulteration of milk products by melamine and its analogs has become a threat to the world. In 2008, the misuse of melamine with infant formula caused serious effects on babies of China. Thereafter, the government of China and the US Food and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,494 Views
13 Pages

Inkjet Printed Interdigitated Biosensor for Easy and Rapid Detection of Bacteriophage Contamination: A Preliminary Study for Milk Processing Control Applications

  • Giulio Rosati,
  • Arianna Cunego,
  • Fabio Fracchetti,
  • Antonio Del Casale,
  • Matteo Scaramuzza,
  • Alessandro De Toni,
  • Sandra Torriani and
  • Alessandro Paccagnella

Bacteriophages are responsible for significant material and time losses in the dairy industry. This because these viruses infect the selected lactic starter cultures used for milk fermentation, i.e., the first stage toward cheese production. Standard...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,503 Views
13 Pages

Deposition Time and Annealing Effects of ZnO Seed Layer on Enhancing Vertical Alignment of Piezoelectric ZnO Nanowires

  • Taoufik Slimani Tlemcani,
  • Camille Justeau,
  • Kevin Nadaud,
  • Guylaine Poulin-Vittrant and
  • Daniel Alquier

Well aligned crystalline zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires (NWs) on ZnO/Au/Ti/Si substrates were grown by so-called “hydrothermal synthesis”. ZnO seed layers with different thicknesses ranging from 5 to 100 nm, achieved by controlling the deposi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,046 Views
11 Pages

Impedance Study of Dopamine Effects after Application on 2D and 3D Neuroblastoma Cell Cultures Developed on a 3D-Printed Well

  • Georgia Paivana,
  • Theofylaktos Apostolou,
  • Sophie Mavrikou,
  • Dimitris Barmpakos,
  • Grigoris Kaltsas and
  • Spyridon Kintzios

In this work, the assessment of the interactions of a bioactive substance applied to immobilized cells in either a two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) arrangement mimicking in vivo tissue conditions is presented. In particular, dopamine (D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
8,009 Views
16 Pages

Reported herein is the sensitive and selective cyclodextrin-promoted fluorescence detection of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene, and cumene (BTEXC) fuel components in contaminated snow samples collected from several locations in the state of Rh...

  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,736 Views
23 Pages

Thin Films Sensor Devices for Mycotoxins Detection in Foods: Applications and Challenges

  • Andréia O. Santos,
  • Andreia Vaz,
  • Paula Rodrigues,
  • Ana C. A. Veloso,
  • Armando Venâncio and
  • António M. Peres

Mycotoxins are a group of secondary metabolites produced by different species of filamentous fungi and pose serious threats to food safety due to their serious human and animal health impacts such as carcinogenic, teratogenic and hepatotoxic effects....

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,086 Views
14 Pages

Real-Time Frequency Tracking of an Electro-Thermal Piezoresistive Cantilever Resonator with ZnO Nanorods for Chemical Sensing

  • Andi Setiono,
  • Jiushuai Xu,
  • Michael Fahrbach,
  • Maik Bertke,
  • Wilson Ombati Nyang’au,
  • Hutomo Suryo Wasisto and
  • Erwin Peiner

The asymmetric resonance response in electro-thermal piezoresistive cantilever resonators causes a need of an optimization treatment for taking parasitic actuation-sensing effects into account. An electronic reference circuit for signal subtraction,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,819 Views
12 Pages

Amperometric hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and glucose biosensors based on unzipped carbon nanotubes with modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE) have been successfully fabricated via a facile electrochemical oxidative method. In this work, we investigated...

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