Applied Nanosensors for Food Toxicants and Environmental Pollutants

Dear Colleagues,

Toxins in the food chain remain a threatening issue for public health. The use of simple, fast, reliable and cost-effective detectors for real time and preferably in the field or on line analyses of raw or processed food becomes indispensable. Further, public and ecosystem health may be seriously damaged by a variety of environmental pollutants, both organic and inorganic, having short-, medium- or long-term effects that are currently cannot be adequately monitored in the environment. The main reasons lie in the inability to monitor the fate of pollutants entering any given ecosystem as well as in technological constraints on both, field instrumentation and trace detection. Nanobiosensors have thus far presented an incredible potential tool for rapid identification and detection of a variety of food toxicants, environmental pollutants and pollution degradation products, utilizing a wide range of detection methodologies and transduction strategies. Multiplex analyses might become a reality in the near future utilizing small-sized, hand-held detectors with increased reliability of measurements. This Special Issue wishes to host such potential and present novel nano-based biosensors that are suitable for food and environmental analysis. Emphasis will be given in sensor construction, analytical development, implementation in real samples and operation conditions, material design and engineering. Given the complex nature of the samples, papers on modeling and uncertainty of measurements are also welcomed.

Prof. Dr. Dimitros P. Nikolelis
Dr. Christina Siontorou
Dr. Georgia-Paraskevi Nikoleli
Guest Editors

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