Concept design for a novel confined-bacterial-based biosensor for water quality control

Abstract

The care and protection of world resources propose nowadays new challenges and compromises, which require a rapid action to assure future availability. Constant efforts have been made to control changes that might affect life; continuous surveillance plays a key-role on environmental conservation and different methods had been used to determine the quality of such resources. The aim of the current research is the design of an easy to use, yet cheap, biosensor, based on electrical properties of different microorganisms, confined in a suitable microestructure.