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Spanos A, Athanasiou K, Ioannou A, Fotopoulos V, Krasia-Christoforou T. Functionalized Magnetic Nanomaterials in Agricultural Applications. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2021; 11:3106. [PMID: 34835870 PMCID: PMC8623625 DOI: 10.3390/nano11113106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2021] [Revised: 11/03/2021] [Accepted: 11/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The development of functional nanomaterials exhibiting cost-effectiveness, biocompatibility and biodegradability in the form of nanoadditives, nanofertilizers, nanosensors, nanopesticides and herbicides, etc., has attracted considerable attention in the field of agriculture. Such nanomaterials have demonstrated the ability to increase crop production, enable the efficient and targeted delivery of agrochemicals and nutrients, enhance plant resistance to various stress factors and act as nanosensors for the detection of various pollutants, plant diseases and insufficient plant nutrition. Among others, functional magnetic nanomaterials based on iron, iron oxide, cobalt, cobalt and nickel ferrite nanoparticles, etc., are currently being investigated in agricultural applications due to their unique and tunable magnetic properties, the existing versatility with regard to their (bio)functionalization, and in some cases, their inherent ability to increase crop yield. This review article provides an up-to-date appraisal of functionalized magnetic nanomaterials being explored in the agricultural sector.
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- Alexandros Spanos
- Department of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology & Food Science, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol 3036, Cyprus; (A.S.); (A.I.); (V.F.)
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- Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Cyprus, Nicosia 2109, Cyprus;
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology & Food Science, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol 3036, Cyprus; (A.S.); (A.I.); (V.F.)
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology & Food Science, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol 3036, Cyprus; (A.S.); (A.I.); (V.F.)
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Bräuer B, Unger C, Werner M, Lieberzeit PA. Biomimetic Sensors to Detect Bioanalytes in Real-Life Samples Using Molecularly Imprinted Polymers: A Review. SENSORS 2021; 21:s21165550. [PMID: 34450992 PMCID: PMC8400518 DOI: 10.3390/s21165550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2021] [Revised: 08/12/2021] [Accepted: 08/15/2021] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) come with the promise to be highly versatile, useful artificial receptors for sensing a wide variety of analytes. Despite a very large body of literature on imprinting, the number of papers addressing real-life biological samples and analytes is somewhat limited. Furthermore, the topic of MIP-based sensor design is still, rather, in the research stage and lacks wide-spread commercialization. This review summarizes recent advances of MIP-based sensors targeting biological species. It covers systems that are potentially interesting in medical applications/diagnostics, in detecting illicit substances, environmental analysis, and in the quality control of food. The main emphasis is placed on work that demonstrates application in real-life matrices, including those that are diluted in a reasonable manner. Hence, it does not restrict itself to the transducer type, but focusses on both materials and analytical tasks.
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Zheng X, Khaoulani S, Ktari N, Lo M, Khalil AM, Zerrouki C, Fourati N, Chehimi MM. Towards Clean and Safe Water: A Review on the Emerging Role of Imprinted Polymer-Based Electrochemical Sensors. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2021; 21:4300. [PMID: 34201852 PMCID: PMC8271813 DOI: 10.3390/s21134300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2021] [Revised: 06/09/2021] [Accepted: 06/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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This review critically summarizes the knowledge of imprinted polymer-based electrochemical sensors for the detection of pesticides, metal ions and waterborne pathogenic bacteria, focusing on the last five years. MIP-based electrochemical sensors exhibit low limits of detection (LOD), high selectivity, high sensitivity and low cost. We put the emphasis on the design of imprinted polymers and their composites and coatings by radical polymerization, oxidative polymerization of conjugated monomers or sol-gel chemistry. Whilst most imprinted polymers are used in conjunction with differential pulse or square wave voltammetry for sensing organics and metal ions, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) appears as the chief technique for detecting bacteria or their corresponding proteins. Interestingly, bacteria could also be probed via their quorum sensing signaling molecules or flagella proteins. If much has been developed in the past decade with glassy carbon or gold electrodes, it is clear that carbon paste electrodes of imprinted polymers are more and more investigated due to their versatility. Shortlisted case studies were critically reviewed and discussed; clearly, a plethora of tricky strategies of designing selective electrochemical sensors are offered to "Imprinters". We anticipate that this review will be of interest to experts and newcomers in the field who are paying time and effort combining electrochemical sensors with MIP technology.
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- Xiaofeng Zheng
- Université de Paris, CNRS, ITODYS (UMR 7086), 75013 Paris, France;
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- SATIE, UMR CNRS 8029, Cnam, 75003 Paris, France; (S.K.); (C.Z.); (N.F.)
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- Laboratoire Matériaux, Traitement et Analyse, INRAP, BiotechPole Sidi-Thabet, Ariana 2032, Tunisia;
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- Département de Chimie, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Organique & Analyse Instrumentale, Faculté des Sciences, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar 5005, Senegal;
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- Photochemistry Department, National Research Centre, Dokki, Giza 12622, Egypt;
- Université Paris Est, CNRS, ICMPE, UMR7182, 94320 Thiais, France
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- SATIE, UMR CNRS 8029, Cnam, 75003 Paris, France; (S.K.); (C.Z.); (N.F.)
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- SATIE, UMR CNRS 8029, Cnam, 75003 Paris, France; (S.K.); (C.Z.); (N.F.)
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- Université de Paris, CNRS, ITODYS (UMR 7086), 75013 Paris, France;
- Université Paris Est, CNRS, ICMPE, UMR7182, 94320 Thiais, France
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Marfà J, Pupin RR, Sotomayor M, Pividori MI. Magnetic-molecularly imprinted polymers in electrochemical sensors and biosensors. Anal Bioanal Chem 2021; 413:6141-6157. [PMID: 34164705 DOI: 10.1007/s00216-021-03461-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2021] [Revised: 06/02/2021] [Accepted: 06/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Magnetic particles, as well as molecularly imprinted polymers, have revolutionized separation and bioanalytical methodologies in the 1980s due to their wide range of applications. Today, biologically modified magnetic particles are used in many scientific and technological applications and are integrated in more than 50,000 diagnostic instruments for the detection of a huge range of analytes. However, the main drawback of this material is their stability and high cost. In this work, we review recent advances in the synthesis and characterization of hybrid molecularly imprinted polymers with magnetic properties, as a cheaper and robust alternative for the well-known biologically modified magnetic particles. The main advantages of these materials are, besides the magnetic properties, the possibility to be stored at room temperature without any loss in the activity. Among all the applications, this work reviews the direct detection of electroactive analytes based on the preconcentration by using magnetic-MIP integrated on magneto-actuated electrodes, including food safety, environmental monitoring, and clinical and pharmaceutical analysis. The main features of these electrochemical sensors, including their analytical performance, are summarized. This simple and rapid method will open the way to incorporate this material in different magneto-actuated devices with no need for extensive sample pretreatment and sophisticated instruments.
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- J Marfà
- Grup de Sensors i Biosensors, Departament de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, State University of São Paulo (UNESP), Araraquara, SP, 14801-970, Brazil
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, State University of São Paulo (UNESP), Araraquara, SP, 14801-970, Brazil
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- Grup de Sensors i Biosensors, Departament de Química, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain. .,Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain.
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Nanomaterial-based molecularly imprinted polymers for pesticides detection: Recent trends and future prospects. Trends Analyt Chem 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2020.115943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Capoferri D, Della Pelle F, Del Carlo M, Compagnone D. Affinity Sensing Strategies for the Detection of Pesticides in Food. Foods 2018; 7:E148. [PMID: 30189666 PMCID: PMC6165126 DOI: 10.3390/foods7090148] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2018] [Revised: 08/28/2018] [Accepted: 09/03/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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This is a review of recent affinity-based approaches that detect pesticides in food. The importance of the quantification and monitoring of pesticides is firstly discussed, followed by a description of the different approaches reported in the literature. The different sensing approaches are reported according to the different recognition element used: antibodies, aptamers, or molecularly imprinted polymers. Schemes of detection and the main features of the assays are reported and commented upon. The large number of affinity sensors recently developed and tested on real samples demonstrate that this approach is ready to be validated to monitor the amount of pesticides used in food commodities.
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- Denise Capoferri
- Faculty of Biosciences and Technologies for Food, Agriculture and Environment, University of Teramo, via R. Balzarini 1, 64100 Teramo, Italy.
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- Faculty of Biosciences and Technologies for Food, Agriculture and Environment, University of Teramo, via R. Balzarini 1, 64100 Teramo, Italy.
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- Faculty of Biosciences and Technologies for Food, Agriculture and Environment, University of Teramo, via R. Balzarini 1, 64100 Teramo, Italy.
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- Faculty of Biosciences and Technologies for Food, Agriculture and Environment, University of Teramo, via R. Balzarini 1, 64100 Teramo, Italy.
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George JM, Antony A, Mathew B. Metal oxide nanoparticles in electrochemical sensing and biosensing: a review. Mikrochim Acta 2018; 185:358. [DOI: 10.1007/s00604-018-2894-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 157] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2018] [Accepted: 06/26/2018] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Afzal A, Dickert FL. Imprinted Oxide and MIP/Oxide Hybrid Nanomaterials for Chemical Sensors †. NANOMATERIALS 2018; 8:nano8040257. [PMID: 29677107 PMCID: PMC5923587 DOI: 10.3390/nano8040257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2018] [Revised: 04/11/2018] [Accepted: 04/16/2018] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The oxides of transition, post-transition and rare-earth metals have a long history of robust and fast responsive recognition elements for electronic, optical, and gravimetric devices. A wide range of applications successfully utilized pristine or doped metal oxides and polymer-oxide hybrids as nanostructured recognition elements for the detection of biologically relevant molecules, harmful organic substances, and drugs as well as for the investigative process control applications. An overview of the selected recognition applications of molecularly imprinted sol-gel phases, metal oxides and hybrid nanomaterials composed of molecularly imprinted polymers (MIP) and metal oxides is presented herein. The formation and fabrication processes for imprinted sol-gel layers, metal oxides, MIP-coated oxide nanoparticles and other MIP/oxide nanohybrids are discussed along with their applications in monitoring bioorganic analytes and processes. The sensor characteristics such as dynamic detection range and limit of detection are compared as the performance criterion and the miniaturization and commercialization possibilities are critically discussed.
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- Adeel Afzal
- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, University of Hafr Al Batin, P.O. Box 1803, Hafr Al Batin 31991, Saudi Arabia.
- Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währingerstraße 38, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währingerstraße 38, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
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Liu W, Wijeratne S, Yang L, Bruening M. Porous star-star polyelectrolyte multilayers for protein binding. POLYMER 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2018.01.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Patra S, Roy E, Parui R, Madhuri R, Sharma PK. RETRACTED: Anisotropic (spherical/hexagon/cube) silver nanoparticle embedded magnetic carbon nanosphere as platform for designing of tramadol imprinted polymer. Biosens Bioelectron 2017; 97:208-217. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2017.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2017] [Revised: 05/23/2017] [Accepted: 06/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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David IG, Popa DE, Buleandra M. Pencil Graphite Electrodes: A Versatile Tool in Electroanalysis. JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL METHODS IN CHEMISTRY 2017; 2017:1905968. [PMID: 28255500 PMCID: PMC5307002 DOI: 10.1155/2017/1905968] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2016] [Revised: 12/19/2016] [Accepted: 01/04/2017] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Due to their electrochemical and economical characteristics, pencil graphite electrodes (PGEs) gained in recent years a large applicability to the analysis of various types of inorganic and organic compounds from very different matrices. The electrode material of this type of working electrodes is constituted by the well-known and easy commercially available graphite pencil leads. Thus, PGEs are cheap and user-friendly and can be employed as disposable electrodes avoiding the time-consuming step of solid electrodes surface cleaning between measurements. When compared to other working electrodes PGEs present lower background currents, higher sensitivity, good reproducibility, and an adjustable electroactive surface area, permitting the analysis of low concentrations and small sample volumes without any deposition/preconcentration step. Therefore, this paper presents a detailed overview of the PGEs characteristics, designs and applications of bare, and electrochemically pretreated and chemically modified PGEs along with the corresponding performance characteristics like linear range and detection limit. Techniques used for bare or modified PGEs surface characterization are also reviewed.
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- Iulia Gabriela David
- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Bucharest, Panduri Av. 90–92, District 5, 050663 Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Bucharest, Panduri Av. 90–92, District 5, 050663 Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Bucharest, Panduri Av. 90–92, District 5, 050663 Bucharest, Romania
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Karfa P, Madhuri R, Sharma PK. Retracted Article: A battle between spherical and cube-shaped Ag/AgCl nanoparticle modified imprinted polymer to achieve femtogram detection of alpha-feto protein. J Mater Chem B 2016; 4:5534-5547. [DOI: 10.1039/c6tb01306f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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During a competition between cube and spherical-shaped Ag/AgCl nanoparticles modified alpha-feto protein imprinted polymer, cube wins the race and found suitable detection of hepatocellular carcinoma biomarker in the femtogram range.
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- Paramita Karfa
- Department of Applied Chemistry
- Indian School of Mines
- Dhanbad
- India
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- Department of Applied Chemistry
- Indian School of Mines
- Dhanbad
- India
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- Functional Nanomaterials Research Laboratory
- Department of Applied Physics
- Indian School of Mines
- Dhanbad
- India
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