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Low-Cost Chemosenors for Applications in Environment, Health, Food, and Industry Process Control

A special issue of Chemosensors (ISSN 2227-9040). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Chemical Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 September 2024 | Viewed by 1744

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Dr. Weiying Lu

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School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Interests: sensors; food analysis; proteomics; nontargeted detection; chemometrics
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Dear Colleagues,

Low-cost sensing refers to the use of affordable sensors to detect and measure the presence of chemicals. These sensors can be used in a wide variety of applications, including environmental monitoring, healthcare, food quality and safety, and industrial process control. Low-cost sensing technologies include, but are not limited to, the following: gas sensors in applications such as air quality monitoring, leak detection in industrial settings, or breath analysis in medical diagnostics; pH sensors used from water quality testing to food and beverage production; biosensors that use enzymes or antibodies to detect specific chemical compounds in medical diagnostics; colorimetric sensors that respond to a specific chemical reaction for integrated test kits; electronic noses with an array of chemical sensors to mimic the function of the human nose, identifying complex smells and tastes for food quality control or disease diagnosis.

Low-cost sensing can democratize access to important data and enable more widespread monitoring of chemical substances. However, like other low-cost sensing technologies, they may have limitations in terms of their accuracy, sensitivity, and selectivity compared to more expensive, laboratory-grade instruments. To overcome such disadvantages, recent developments in low-cost sensing have been driven by advances in materials science, nanotechnology, and information technologies, with key trends such as nanomaterials, printed electronics, paper-based sensors, wearable devices, the Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML) making sensing more accessible, affordable, and effective, opening up new possibilities for monitoring and managing chemical substances in commercial products, the environment, and our bodies.

This Special Issue will encompass original research and reviews to benefit interested readers with knowledge of the state-of-the-art in low-cost sensing.

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Sensors.

Dr. Weiying Lu
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • low-cost
  • chemosensors
  • sensors
  • food analysis
  • gas sensor
  • pH sensor
  • medical diagnostics
  • colorimetric sensors
  • electronic nose
  • healthcare
  • environmental monitoring

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SnO2 Nanowire/MoS2 Nanosheet Composite Gas Sensor in Self-Heating Mode for Selective and ppb-Level Detection of NO2 Gas
by Jin-Young Kim, Ali Mirzaei and Jae-Hun Kim
Chemosensors 2024, 12(6), 107; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors12060107 - 9 Jun 2024
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The development of low-cost and low-power gas sensors for reliable NO2 gas detection is important due to the highly toxic nature of NO2 gas. Herein, initially, SnO2 nanowires (NWs) were synthesized through a simple vapor–liquid–solid growth mechanism. Subsequently, different amounts [...] Read more.
The development of low-cost and low-power gas sensors for reliable NO2 gas detection is important due to the highly toxic nature of NO2 gas. Herein, initially, SnO2 nanowires (NWs) were synthesized through a simple vapor–liquid–solid growth mechanism. Subsequently, different amounts of SnO2 NWs were composited with MoS2 nanosheets (NSs) to fabricate SnO2 NWs/MoS2 NS nanocomposite gas sensors for NO2 gas sensing. The operation of the sensors in self-heating mode at 1–3.5 V showed that the sensor with 20 wt.% SnO2 (SM-20 nanocomposite) had the highest response of 13 to 1000 ppb NO2 under 3.2 V applied voltage. Furthermore, the SM-20 nanocomposite gas sensor exhibited high selectivity and excellent long-term stability. The enhanced NO2 gas response was ascribed to the formation of n-n heterojunctions between SnO2 NWs and MoS2, high surface area, and the presence of some voids in the SM-20 composite gas sensor due to having different morphologies of SnO2 NWs and MoS2 NSs. It is believed that the present strategy combining MoS2 and SnO2 with different morphologies and different sensing properties is a good approach to realize high-performance NO2 gas sensors with merits such as simple synthesis and fabrication procedures, low cost, and low power consumption, which are currently in demand in the gas sensor market. Full article
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Polyaniline-Based Flexible Sensor for pH Monitoring in Oxidizing Environments
by Liam Bignall, Claire Magnenet, Catheline Ramsamy, Sophie Lakard, Simon Vassal and Boris Lakard
Chemosensors 2024, 12(6), 97; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors12060097 - 3 Jun 2024
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Measuring pH in oxidizing solutions is a crucial issue in areas such as aquaculture, water treatment, industrial chemistry, and environmental analysis. For this purpose, a low-cost potentiometric flexible sensor using a polymer film as a pH-sensitive material has been developed in this study. [...] Read more.
Measuring pH in oxidizing solutions is a crucial issue in areas such as aquaculture, water treatment, industrial chemistry, and environmental analysis. For this purpose, a low-cost potentiometric flexible sensor using a polymer film as a pH-sensitive material has been developed in this study. The sensor consists in a polyaniline film electrodeposited from a sulfuric acid solution on a gold electrode previously deposited on a flexible polyimide substrate. The resulting polyaniline-based pH sensors showed an interesting performance detection in aqueous solution, leading to sensitive (73.4 mV per unit pH) and reproducible (standard deviation of 1.75) responses over the entire pH range from 3 to 8. On the contrary, they were inoperative in the presence of oxidizing hypochlorite ions. Thus, other polyaniline films were electrodeposited in the presence of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide or Tritonx100 surfactant in an attempt to improve the sensing performance of the pH sensors in oxidizing solutions. The pH sensors based on polyaniline and Tritonx100 surfactant were then found to be sensitive (62.3 mV per unit pH) and reproducible (standard deviation of 1.52) in aqueous solutions containing hypochlorite ions. All polyaniline films were also characterized by profilometry and electronic microscopy to correlate the physicochemical features with the performance of the sensors. Full article
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A Naked-Eye Colorimetric Ratio Method for the Selective and Sensitive Detection of L-Cys Based on a Silver Nanoflakes–Chromium (III) Ion System
by Xi Zhang, Yunyi Zhang, Yuwei Gu, Junyu Zhou, Ming Li and Jian Qi
Chemosensors 2024, 12(5), 80; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors12050080 - 11 May 2024
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As a necessary sulfhydryl amino acid, L-cysteine (L-Cys) maintains many physiological functions in the biological system. However, abnormal L-Cys levels can cause a variety of diseases. In our work, a highly sensitive and selective assay has been developed for sensing L-Cys using the [...] Read more.
As a necessary sulfhydryl amino acid, L-cysteine (L-Cys) maintains many physiological functions in the biological system. However, abnormal L-Cys levels can cause a variety of diseases. In our work, a highly sensitive and selective assay has been developed for sensing L-Cys using the morphological transformation of silver-based materials induced by Cr3+. In this sensing system, Cr3+ could etch the silver nanoflakes into silver nanoparticles, accompanied by a change in absorbance, which decreases at 395 nm, creates a new peak at 538 nm, and keeps increasing the absorbance with the addition of Cr3+ concentration. Meanwhile, under the naked eye, the solution color changes from bright yellow to dark purple. Because of the strong affinity between L-Cys and Cr3+, L-Cys could inhibit the induction of Cr3+ on silver-based materials, thereby preventing changes in the configuration, absorption spectrum, and color of silver-based materials. Taking advantage of this point, we can quantitatively detect the concentration of L-Cys. A linear relationship between the absorbance ratio (A538 nm/A395 nm) and L-Cys concentration was found in the range of 0.1–0.9 μM, and the detection limit was 41.2 nM. The strategy was applied to measure L-Cys spiked in beer and urine samples, with recovery from 93.80 to 104.03% and 93.33% to 107.14% and RSD from 0.89 to 2.40% and 1.80% to 6.78%, respectively. This detection strategy demonstrates excellent selectivity and sensitivity, which makes it a practical and effective method for the detection of L-Cys in real samples. Full article
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The Developments on Lateral Flow Immunochromatographic Assay for Food Safety in Recent 10 Years: A Review
by Peng Wang, Jinyan Li, Lingling Guo, Jiaxun Li, Feng He, Haitao Zhang and Hai Chi
Chemosensors 2024, 12(6), 88; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors12060088 - 24 May 2024
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Food safety inspections are an essential aspect of food safety monitoring. Rapid, accurate, and low-cost food analysis can considerably increase the efficiency of food safety inspections. The lateral flow immunochromatographic assay (LFIA) technique has recently grown in popularity due to its ease of [...] Read more.
Food safety inspections are an essential aspect of food safety monitoring. Rapid, accurate, and low-cost food analysis can considerably increase the efficiency of food safety inspections. The lateral flow immunochromatographic assay (LFIA) technique has recently grown in popularity due to its ease of use and high efficiency. It is currently commonly utilized in food inspection. In this review, we briefly introduce the principle and classification of LFIA, critically discuss the recent application status of LFIA in food contaminantion detection, and finally propose that artificial intelligence and information technology will further advance the development of LFIA in the field of food safety monitoring. Full article
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