Piezoelectric biosensors for organophosphate and carbamate pesticides: a review.
BIOSENSORS-BASEL 2014;
4:301-17. [PMID:
25587424 PMCID:
PMC4264360 DOI:
10.3390/bios4030301]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2014] [Revised: 07/28/2014] [Accepted: 08/07/2014] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Abstract
Due to the great amount of pesticides currently being used, there is an increased interest for developing biosensors for their detection. Among all the physical transducers, piezoelectric systems have emerged as the most attractive due to their simplicity, low instrumentation costs, possibility for real-time and label-free detection and generally high sensitivity. This paper presents an overview of biosensors based on the quartz crystal microbalance, which have been reported in the literature for organophosphate and carbamate pesticide analysis.
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