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Freire MS, Silva HJB, Albuquerque GM, Monte JP, Lima MTA, Silva JJ, Pereira GAL, Pereira G. Advances on chalcogenide quantum dots-based sensors for environmental pollutants monitoring. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2024; 931:172848. [PMID: 38703843 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172848] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2024] [Revised: 04/23/2024] [Accepted: 04/26/2024] [Indexed: 05/06/2024]
Abstract
Water contamination represents a significant ecological impact with global consequences, contributing to water scarcity worldwide. The presence of several pollutants, including heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and pathogens, in water resources underscores a pressing global concern, prompting the European Union (EU) to establish a Water Watch List to monitor the level of these substances. Nowadays, the standard methods used to detect and quantify these contaminants are mainly liquid or gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (LC/GC-MS). While these methodologies offer precision and accuracy, they require expensive equipment and experienced technicians, and cannot be used on the field. In this context, chalcogenide quantum dots (QDs)-based sensors have emerged as promising, user-friendly, practical, and portable tools for environmental monitoring. QDs are semiconductor nanocrystals that possess excellent properties, and have demonstrated versatility across various sensor types, such as fluorescent, electrochemical, plasmonic, and colorimetric ones. This review summarizes recent advances (2019-2023) in the use of chalcogenide QDs for environmental sensing, highlighting the development of sensors capable of detect efficiently heavy metals, anions, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, endocrine disrupting compounds, organic dyes, toxic gases, nitroaromatics, and pathogens.
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- Mércia S Freire
- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil.
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- Departamento de Química Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil; Departamento de Química & CESAM, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.
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Wang Y, Wu P, Wang Y, He H, Huang L. Dendritic mesoporous nanoparticles for the detection, adsorption, and degradation of hazardous substances in the environment: State-of-the-art and future prospects. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2023; 345:118629. [PMID: 37499417 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2023] [Revised: 07/03/2023] [Accepted: 07/11/2023] [Indexed: 07/29/2023]
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Equipped with hierarchical pores and three-dimensional (3D) center-radial channels, dendritic mesoporous nanoparticles (DMNs) make their pore volumes extremely large, specific surface areas super-high, internal spaces especially accessible, and so on. Other entities (like organic moieties or nanoparticles) can be modified onto the interfaces or skeletons of DMNs, accomplishing their functionalization for desirable applications. This comprehensive review emphasizes on the design and construction of DMNs-based systems which serve as sensors, adsorbents and catalysts for the detection, adsorption, and degradation of hazardous substances, mainly including the construction procedures of brand-new DMNs-based materials and the involved hazardous substances (like industrial chemicals, chemical dyes, heavy metal ions, medicines, pesticides, and harmful gases). The sensitive, adsorptive, or catalytic performances of various DMNs have been compared; correspondingly, the reaction mechanisms have been revealed strictly. It is honestly anticipated that the profound discussion could offer scientists certain enlightenment to design novel DMNs-based systems towards the detection, adsorption, and degradation of hazardous substances, respectively or comprehensively.
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- Yabin Wang
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yan'an University, Yan'an, 716000, Shaanxi, PR China; Institute for Triazine Compounds & Hierarchical Porous Materials, Shaanxi, PR China.
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yan'an University, Yan'an, 716000, Shaanxi, PR China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yan'an University, Yan'an, 716000, Shaanxi, PR China
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- Institute for Triazine Compounds & Hierarchical Porous Materials, Shaanxi, PR China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Yan'an University, Yan'an, 716000, Shaanxi, PR China; Institute for Triazine Compounds & Hierarchical Porous Materials, Shaanxi, PR China
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Burton K, Nic Daeid N, Adegoke O. Surface plasmon-enhanced aptamer-based fluorescence detection of cocaine using hybrid nanostructure of cadmium-free ZnSe/In2S3 core/shell quantum dots and gold nanoparticles. J Photochem Photobiol A Chem 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2022.114131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Li Z, Lin H, Wang L, Cao L, Sui J, Wang K. Optical sensing techniques for rapid detection of agrochemicals: Strategies, challenges, and perspectives. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 838:156515. [PMID: 35667437 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156515] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2022] [Revised: 05/24/2022] [Accepted: 06/02/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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In recent years, the irrational use of agrochemicals has caused great harm to the environment and public health. Along with the rapid development of optical technology and nanotechnology, the research of optical sensing methods in agrochemical detection has been developed rapidly owing to its advantages of simplicity, fast response, and cost-effectiveness. In this review, the strategies of employing optical systems based on colorimetric sensor, fluorescence, chemiluminescence, terahertz spectroscopy, surface plasmon resonance, and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for sensing agrochemicals were summarized. In addition, the challenges in the practical application of optical sensing technologies for agrochemical detection were discussed in-depth, and potential future trends and prospects of these techniques were addressed. A variety of nanomaterials have been developed for enhancing the sensitivity of optical sensing systems. The optical properties of nanomaterials are governed by their size, shape, and chemical structure. Although each optical sensing system holds its advantages, there are still many challenges that need to be overcome in practical applications. With the continuous developments in novel functional nanomaterials, sample preparation methods, and spectral processing algorithms, optical sensors are expected to have powerful potential for rapid testing of agrochemicals in the environment and foods.
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- Zhuoran Li
- College of Food Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong 266003, China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong 266003, China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong 266003, China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong 266003, China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong 266003, China
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- College of Food Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong 266003, China; Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Breeding Lateolabrax Japonicus, Ningde, Fujian 355299, China.
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Simple and rapid colorimetric visualization of tetramethylthiuram disulfide (thiram) sensing based on anti-aggregation of gold nanoparticles. Food Chem 2022; 384:132223. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2022.132223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2021] [Revised: 01/07/2022] [Accepted: 01/20/2022] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Wang Y, Cui X, Gao H, Lu R, Zhou W. A fluorescent organic nanoparticles-based sensor synthesized through hydrothermal process and its application in sensing Hg 2+ of real samples and fast visual detection. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2022; 270:120833. [PMID: 34999359 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2021.120833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2021] [Revised: 12/14/2021] [Accepted: 12/28/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The fluorescent organic nanoparticles (FONs)-based sensor has been attracting great attention in recent years. There are still big challenges in the preparation and application of FONs-based sensor. In this study, a FONs-based sensor was designed and developed through facile hydrothermal process using 3-perylenecarboxaldehyde (PlCA) as the fluorophore and L-methionine (Met) as the recognition site for mercury ions. According to the experimental results, the fluorescence intensity of the as-prepared PlCA-M would decrease when adding Hg2+ and the mechanism was extrapolated to be photoinduced electron transfer inducing by specific coordination interaction. The acquired PlCA-M-based sensor was used to monitor Hg2+ in several real samples (environmental water, tea, and apple) with the limit of detection being 60 nM. Remarkably, a visual detection device based on FONs, SDS-PAAG (sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel) @PlCA-M was firstly constructed and successfully used to Hg2+ semi-quantitation by naked eyes. In addition, the acquired FONs was applied into imaging tool for security information detection and identified as solid-state luminescent material for the first time.
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- Yujiao Wang
- College of Science, China Agricultural University, Mingyuanxilu No.2, Haidian District, Beijing, China
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- College of Science, China Agricultural University, Mingyuanxilu No.2, Haidian District, Beijing, China
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- College of Science, China Agricultural University, Mingyuanxilu No.2, Haidian District, Beijing, China
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- College of Science, China Agricultural University, Mingyuanxilu No.2, Haidian District, Beijing, China
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- College of Science, China Agricultural University, Mingyuanxilu No.2, Haidian District, Beijing, China.
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Min X, Huang S, Yuan C. Dual-color quantum dots nanobeads based suspension microarray for simultaneous detection of dual prostate specific antigens. Anal Chim Acta 2022; 1204:339704. [DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2022.339704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2021] [Revised: 02/17/2022] [Accepted: 03/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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