The development of advanced biosensors with high sensitivity and selectivity is one of the most demanded concerns in the field of biosensors. To meet this requirement, up until now, numerous nanomaterials have been introduced to develop biosensors fo...
Methane, a greenhouse gas with 21 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide, is increasingly subject to stringent emission regulations, driving the demand for high-performance methane sensors. This study proposes a novel IR spectroscopy te...
Excessive mercury ions (Hg2+) cause great pollution to soil/water and pose a major threat to human health. The high sensitivity and high selectivity in the Hg2+ detection demonstrated herein are significant for the research areas of analytical chemis...
The development of novel sensing materials provides good opportunities to realize previously unachievable sensor performance. In this review, conducting polymer-based nanohybrids are highlighted as innovative transducers for high-performance chemical...
Formaldehyde is one of the most dangerous air pollutants, which can cause sick building syndrome. Thus, it is very crucial to precisely determine formaldehyde with a low cost and simple operation. In this paper, a smartphone-based microfluidic colori...
The rational design of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) with hydrochromic properties is of significant value because of the facile and rapid detection of water in diverse fields. In this report, we present a thiazole-linked COF (TZ-COF-6) sensor wi...
A 3D cobalt metal–organic framework (Co–MOF), [Co3(BDC)3(DMU)2], was utilized to prepare Cu@Co–MOF composite in a deposition–reduction process. Cu@Co–MOF/GCE (GCE = glassy carbon electrode) electrode was prepared by “drop–coating” method. Cu@Co–MOF/G...
A novel ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complex bearing 1,8-naphthyridine was successfully designed and synthesized. This complex was fully characterized by EI-HRMS, NMR, and elemental analyses. The recognition properties of the complex for various metal i...
Freestanding electrode designs, cost-effective catalysts, and enhanced electrical conductivity are crucial for improving the performance of fourth-generation non-enzymatic glucose electrochemical sensors. These factors enable more efficient, scalable...
Peroxynitrite (ONOO−) has been revealed to play crucial roles in many physiological and pathological processes, and many diseases were proven to be associated with its misregulated production. The development of fluorescent probes meets the nee...
Food safety issues are directly related to people’s quality of life, so there is a need to develop efficient and reliable food contaminants’ detection devices to ensure the safety and quality of food. Electrochemical biosensors have the s...
Heavy metal ions impair human health and irreversibly damage the ecosystem. As a result, it is critical to create an efficient approach for identifying heavy metal ions. The electrochemical sensor method is a type of detection method that is highly s...
Advanced gas sensors fabricated with nanoparticles and thin films of semiconductor metal oxides have been widely used for the detection of toxic, hazardous, and combustible gases and as biomarkers for the safety of human beings, environmental control...
Nitrogen-doped carbon nanodots (CNDs) were synthesized and utilized as sensing probes to detect different anions and metallic ions within aqueous solutions. The pristine CNDs were developed through a one-pot hydrothermal synthesis. o-Phenylenediamine...
Silver nanowires (AgNW) have excellent electrical conductivity, transparency, and flexing endurance, and are broadly used in flexible electrodes and flexible sensors. This study mixed the silver nanowires and polyimide (PI) polymer using an in situ s...
In oil and gas production, reservoir heterogeneity causes plugging removal fluids to preferentially enter high-permeability zones, hindering effective production enhancement in low-permeability reservoirs. Traditional chemical diverting agents exhibi...
A carbon dot-functionalized solution-gated graphene transistor (CD-SGGT) was designed and prepared via the modification of CDs on the gate of SGGT. The above CDs were hydrothermally synthesized using DL-thioctic acid and triethylenetramine as C, N an...
Homocysteine (Hcy) is a biothiol that plays a vital role in many physiological processes and is involved in a variety of diseases. However, it is significantly difficult to discriminate Hcy from cysteine (Cys) due to their similar chemical structures...
Fluorescent conjugated polymers (FCPs) have been explored for selective detection of metal cations with ultra-sensitivity in environmental and biological systems. Herein, a new FCP sensor, tmeda-PPpETE (poly[(pentiptycene ethynylene)-alt-(thienylene...
A fluorescence and solid phase extraction (SPE) adsorption nanomaterials of molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) based on quantum dot-grafted covalent organic frameworks (QD-grafted COFs) was prepared by one-pot surface-imprinting synthesis method....
This research explores the application of an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted approach to enhance the selectivity of microwave sensors used for liquid mixture sensing. We utilized a planar microwave sensor comprising two coupled rectangular comp...
A highly selective and sensitive optical sensor was developed to colorimetric detect trace Fe3+ ions in aqueous solution. The sensor was the sulfasalazine (SSZ) functionalized microgels (SSZ-MGs), which were fabricated via in-situ quaternization reac...
A novel fluorescent probe based on azamonardine (Aza) fluorophore was designed and synthesized for the highly selective detection of cysteine (Cys) in vivo and in vitro. After reacting with acryloyl chloride, the fluorescence of Aza is effectively qu...
Carbon dots have drawn extensive attention in the detection of metal ions with good stability, excellent biocompatibility and low toxicity. Meanwhile, the quantum yield, response rate and the detection mechanism for Cu2+ ions are vital to their devel...
A fluorescent probe, N′-((3-methyl-5-oxo-1-phenyl-4, 5-dihydro-1H-pyrazol-4-yl) methylene)-2-oxo-2H-chromene-3-carbohydrazide (MPMC), was synthesized and characterized. Characterizations of the synthetic MPMC were conducted via proton nuclear m...
Surface ionization (SI) provides a simple, sensitive, and selective method for the detection of high-proton affinity substances, such as organic decay products, medical and illicit drugs as well as a range of other hazardous materials. Tests on diffe...
With the development of the chemical industry, the threat of mercury pollution to human health is increasing. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a low-cost, convenient and efficient Hg2+ detection method. In this study, anthracene-based Hg2+ fluor...
ZnO nanomaterials with different shapes were synthesized, characterized and tested in the selective monitoring of low concentration of CO and NO2 in air. ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) and nanofibers (NFs) were synthesized by a modified sol-gel method in su...
A new fluorescent Zn2+ chemosensor (P1) based on a functionalized porphyrin was synthesized and characterized. P1 displayed dramatic ratiometric variations in absorption and fluorescent emission spectra upon exposure to Zn2+ due to the formation of a...
In this paper, we propose six general formulae to describe those relationships between the lattice row distance, the lattice parameters and the Miller indices h, k and l for all crystal systems along with any direction. This finally establishes the f...
Calcium ions (Ca2+) are abundantly present in the human body; they perform essential roles in various biological functions. In this study, we propose a highly sensitive and selective biosensor platform for Ca2+ detection, which comprises a dual-gate...
In this work we strived to determine whether endocannabinoid system activity could account for the differences in acute inflammatory pain sensitivity in mouse lines selected for high (HA) and low (LA) swim-stress-induced analgesia (SSIA). Mice receiv...
In this study, a high sensitive and selective hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) sensor was successfully constructed with Pt-Au bimetallic nanoparticles (Pt-Au NPs)/reduced graphene sheets (rGSs) hybrid films. Various molar ratios of Au to Pt and different ele...
Electrically conductive and flexible thermoplastic polyurethane/graphene (TPU/GE) porous structures were successfully fabricated by selective laser sintering (SLS) technique starting from graphene (GE)-wrapped thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) powders...
With the advent of high spatial resolution remote sensing imagery, numerous image features can be utilized. Applying a reasonable feature selection approach is critical to effectively reduce feature redundancy and improve the efficiency and accuracy...
Lateral Flow Immunoassays (LFIAs) allow for rapid, low-cost, screening of many biomolecules such as food allergens. Despite being classified as rapid tests, many LFIAs take 10–20 min to complete. For a really high-speed LFIA, it is necessary to asses...
The potassium (K+) ion is an essential mineral for balancing body fluids and electrolytes in biological systems and regulating bodily function. It is associated with various disorders. Given that it exists at a low concentration in the human body and...
A highly sensitive and selective detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by using gas sensors based on metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) has attracted increasing interest, but still remains a challenge in gas sensitivity and selectivity. In orde...
Chemiresistive gas sensors are extensively employed in environmental monitoring, disease diagnostics, and industrial safety due to their high sensitivity, low cost, and miniaturization. However, the high cross-sensitivity and poor selectivity of gas...
This paper presents a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor (CIS) capable of capturing UV-selective and visible light images simultaneously by a single exposure and without employing optical filters, suitable for applications th...
In this study, we employed a novel approach to improve the serotonin-responsive ssDNA-wrapped single-walled carbon nanotube (ssDNA-SWCNT) nanosensors, combining directed evolution and machine learning-based prediction. Our iterative optimization proc...
Mercury ion selective membrane (Hg-ISM) coated extended gate Field Effect transistors (ISM-FET) were used to manifest a novel methodology for ion-selective sensors based on FET’s, creating ultra-high sensitivity (−36 mV/log [Hg2+]) and ou...
The early diagnosis of diseases is of great importance for the effective treatment of patients. Biomarkers are one of the most promising medical approaches in the diagnosis of diseases and their progress and facilitate reaching this goal. Among the m...
We present a sensor array of microscale organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) using poly (3,4−ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonic acid) (PEDOT:PSS) as the channel material. The devices show high sensitivity and selectivity to det...
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disorder characterized by elevated blood glucose levels. This disease is so serious that many experts refer to it as the “silent killer”. The early detection of diabetes mellitus, whether type 1, type...
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...
This paper presents the FEM modeling and simulation of a thin-film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) for a tetrachloroethene (PCE) gas-sensing application. A zinc oxide layer is used as a piezoelectric material; an aluminum layer is used as the electrod...
It has been shown that the faradic current at an electrode grafted with molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) is sensitive to the specific target molecule used as the template. This phenomenon is applicable to sensors with very high selectivity, but th...
Au:SmFe0.9Zn0.1O3 is synthesized by a sol-gel method and annealed at 750 °C. Through XRD, SEM and XPS analysis methods, the microstructure of the material has been observed. The average particle size is about 50 nm. The sensor shows a high sensit...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the membrane integrity and some physiological responses of rootstock citrus calli under exposure to different concentrations of NaCl. Selected salt-tolerant cell lines were compared with salt-sensitive calli of T...
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