Special Issue "Miniaturized Monitors for Occupational Exposure Assessment"
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2021.
Special Issue Editors

Interests: exposure and risk assessment; environmental and occupational hygiene; air pollution; exposure modeling; indoor air quality; nanosafety; chemical risk assessment and managemen; health impact assessment
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Interests: exposure assessment; exposure sciences; airborne pollutants; occupational and environmental hygiene; chemical risk assessment and risk management
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Interests: environmental and occupational health and safety; occupational and environmental hygiene; risk assessment; risk management; human exposure assessment; atmospheric aerosol; chemical risk assessment; air quality; air pollution; exposure modeling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, a new kind of portable air pollutant monitor has been developed; “miniaturized sensors” are generally manufactured using micro-fabrication techniques, allowing them to be compact, lightweight, inexpensive, and energy-efficient, with extremely low-power consumption.
Miniaturized sensor devices are easy to use and readily portable, they can provide data with high spatial and temporal resolution, and they can provide a real-time continuous measurement of airborne chemicals and air pollutants. These devices are continuously being improved, and their use is becoming increasingly widespread in different settings, even if the literature is more focused on exposure in general environments rather than in industrial or occupational settings.
Only a few studies regarding the potential applications of miniaturized sensors for exposure assessment in occupational environments appear in the literature, thus, this Special Issue aims to present original research articles, reviews, and short communications concerning the following:
- Applications and performance evaluation of portable, wearable, or fixed miniaturized monitors in occupational settings;
- Case-studies concerning exposure assessment in occupational settings using miniaturized monitors;
- Design, development, and evaluation of innovative miniaturized monitors conceived and specifically designed for occupational environments.
Dr. Andrea Cattaneo
Dr. Andrea Spinazzè
Dr. Francesca Borghi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- miniaturized monitors
- portable monitors
- fixed monitors
- occupational exposure
- exposure assessment
- air pollutant
- particulate matter
- gaseous pollutants
- performance evaluation.