{"title":"Recent developments in electrochemical detection of cadmium","authors":"Yinhui Yi , Yong Zhao , Zongmian Zhang , Yuntao Wu , Gangbing Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.teac.2021.e00152","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.teac.2021.e00152","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Heavy metal cadmium (Cd) poses extreme toxicity to the environmental and human health, thus its detection provides a great challenge in the environmental and analytical science, yet the solution is needed urgently owing to the adverse effects. During the past years, the electrochemical techniques have received considerable attentions for Cd</span><sup>2+</sup><span> determination due to their unique advantages. In this review, a common introduction was provided firstly and followed by the detection principles. Then, a fully comprehensive elucidation of the recent developments in electrochemical detection of Cd</span><sup>2+</sup> was presented. Finally, the critical challenge and perspectives of Cd<sup>2+</sup> detection were outlined.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56032,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry","volume":"33 ","pages":"Article e00152"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45063849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shashi Chawla , Prateek Rai , Tanya Garain , S. Uday , Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain
{"title":"Green Carbon Materials for the Analysis of Environmental Pollutants","authors":"Shashi Chawla , Prateek Rai , Tanya Garain , S. Uday , Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain","doi":"10.1016/j.teac.2022.e00156","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.teac.2022.e00156","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Green carbon materials (GCMs) have attracted great attention as they have unique mechanical, optical, and electrical properties that make them suitable for the development of the next generation of miniature, low-power, and mobile sensors. In this review paper, an attempt has been made to explore green carbon materials where their synthesis methods, conjugation with other types of nanomaterials to form nanocomposites, thus combining different properties into one single novel material, and environmental analysis applications are detailed. Green carbon materials have great significance in the analysis of environmental pollutants because they increase the effective area of an electrode, improve the rate of electron transfer between the analytes and the electrode, and help in catalysis, which in turn increases the efficacy of an electrochemical reaction, absorption, detection, and elimination. Moreover, functionalized green carbon materials when used in sensors for fast, economic environmental pollutant analysis are found to be highly sensitive to monitoring heavy metals and other polluting impurities in air, water sources, soils, etc. This review covers research and advancements in a broad span from 2013 to 2021, and some of the leading and fascinating research articles from the early years of the century have also been incorporated.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56032,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry","volume":"33 ","pages":"Article e00156"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48167824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Green analytical chemistry approaches on environmental analysis","authors":"S. Irem Kaya , Ahmet Cetinkaya , Sibel A. Ozkan","doi":"10.1016/j.teac.2022.e00157","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.teac.2022.e00157","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>Green analytical chemistry is a comprehensive perspective that aims to reduce or eliminate the toxic and harmful solvents, reagents, and techniques in the preparation, pre-treatment, and determination steps of an analysis process. With the increase in environmental pollution in recent years, awareness has been increasing in terms of both the contamination analysis of environmental sources and the more environmentally friendly analysis methods. This review evaluates the solvents such as bio-based solvents and </span>deep eutectic solvents<span>, nanomaterials synthesized by non-toxic methods, the greener changes in the </span></span>extraction methods, and chromatographic techniques considering the most recent studies. In particular, trying to make the methods used to analyze environmental samples safer and less toxic is an important point that overlaps with the green approach, which aims to minimize environmental pollution. In this context, this review provides information on green analytical chemistry-based environmental applications covering the last ten years so that the applications of this approach can be examined and understood in more detail and can be applied by other researchers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56032,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry","volume":"33 ","pages":"Article e00157"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42938059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shadi Karimpour Zahraei , Amir Salemi , Torsten C. Schmidt
{"title":"Sample preparation for determination of water taste and odor compounds: A review","authors":"Shadi Karimpour Zahraei , Amir Salemi , Torsten C. Schmidt","doi":"10.1016/j.teac.2021.e00149","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.teac.2021.e00149","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The presence and the concentration of taste and odor compounds are important parameters of drinking water<span><span> quality. They have extremely low odor thresholds that requires their determination at levels below the capabilities of the analytical instrumentation, unless an enrichment process is added to the procedure. Several variations of solid- and liquid-phase (micro)extraction techniques have been developed to improve the classical approaches, in terms of lower sample volumes, less solid or liquid extraction phases, automatization, and enhanced analytical figures of merit. The present review covers the articles on development and application of such sample preparation techniques, prior to chromatographic analysis, for determination of taste and odor compounds in aqueous media, published over the range of 2005−2020. The most frequently observed compounds have been classified and discussed in three groups of (i) </span>geosmin and 2-methylisoborneol, (ii) methoxypyrazine derivatives, and (iii) haloanisoles, and miscellaneous compounds have been collected in a single category.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":56032,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article e00149"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48666200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christina G. Siontorou, Konstantinos N. Georgopoulos
{"title":"Boosting the advantages of biosensors: Niche applicability and fitness for environmental purpose","authors":"Christina G. Siontorou, Konstantinos N. Georgopoulos","doi":"10.1016/j.teac.2021.e00146","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.teac.2021.e00146","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Environmental assessments rely on data derived from metrological schemes in order to draw in due detail the state of the ecosystems. The reliability of the data and the cost-effectiveness of the scheme become critical, especially if the ultimate goal involves decision making and policy development. Biosensor platforms provide the versatility required for integrating environmental, metrological and operational parameters at the design phase. The pertinency and the opportunity for environmental biosensing is apparent, although not seized appropriately with only a few environmental biosensors in the market. This study is based on a technology forecasting approach using bibliometric data to trace the dynamics of the science base and content analysis to identify the drawbacks of the technology base. The results are compared with market forecasts in an effort to align research dynamics with market opportunities. A number of key findings emerged, such as the increase in networking and the establishment of a multi-disciplinarity trend, as well as a shifting of research scope towards ready-to-market designing. Notwithstanding, a renewed interest of the physical chemistry sector has been identified herein, indicating necessary revisions of the science-base, adding a critical parameter in the uncertainty of trajectories.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56032,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article e00146"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47579408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cristina Postigo , Rubén Gil-Solsona , María Fernanda Herrera-Batista , Pablo Gago-Ferrero , Nikiforos Alygizakis , Lutz Ahrens , Karin Wiberg
{"title":"A step forward in the detection of byproducts of anthropogenic organic micropollutants in chlorinated water","authors":"Cristina Postigo , Rubén Gil-Solsona , María Fernanda Herrera-Batista , Pablo Gago-Ferrero , Nikiforos Alygizakis , Lutz Ahrens , Karin Wiberg","doi":"10.1016/j.teac.2021.e00148","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.teac.2021.e00148","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) are widespread in the water cycle. Their levels in disinfected waters are usually low, as they may transform into CEC disinfection byproducts (DBPs) during disinfection processes or partially removed in previous water treatment steps. The occurrence of CEC DBPs in real waters has been scarcely addressed, although their presence may be of relevance in water circular economy scenarios, and thus deserves further study in water regeneration systems. In this work, a database of CEC DBPs (n=1338) after chlorination was generated and is ready to use in future screening studies to assess the relevance of these chemicals in contaminat mixtures. Moreover, the transformation of CECs during chlorination, their main reaction pathways with chlorine, and current knowledge gaps were critically reviewed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56032,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article e00148"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214158821000350/pdfft?md5=1d5f5c2fa536d82d8f87c29b5758f92e&pid=1-s2.0-S2214158821000350-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55178511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biomolecules as promising ligands in the synthesis of metal nanoclusters: Sensing, bioimaging and catalytic applications","authors":"Suresh Kumar Kailasa , Shraddha Borse , Janardhan Reddy Koduru , Z.V.P. Murthy","doi":"10.1016/j.teac.2021.e00140","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.teac.2021.e00140","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The use of metal nanoclusters as sensing probes has recently attracted considerable interest from researchers. In particular, metallic nanoclusters (e.g., Au, Ag, Cu, Pt) have been noticed a wide range of applications in the field of fluorescence sensing and bioimaging. The stabilization of metal nanoclusters with organic molecules, proteins, and amino acids enhances their optical properties and analytical applications. In this review, synthetic routes for the fabrication of metal nanoclusters are summarized. This review also describes the metal nanoclusters properties including aggregation-induced emission, optical absorption, non-linear optical, and chiral properties. We discussed the analytical applications of metal nanoclusters for sensing of wide variety of analytes including drugs, biomolecules, biomarkers. Further, the catalytic applications of metal nanoclusters are also briefly summarized. Finally, we summarize the challenges and future perspectives of metal nanoclusters in analytical chemistry.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56032,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article e00140"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.teac.2021.e00140","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48144228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficient detection of CO2 by nanocomposites: Environmental and energy technologies","authors":"Tawfik A. Saleh , Ganjar Fadillah","doi":"10.1016/j.teac.2021.e00142","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.teac.2021.e00142","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Nanocomposite materials have received much attention from scientists and engineers interested in the detection and photoreduction of CO<sub>2</sub><span> compounds. Their interest is due in large part to the unique properties of these materials, including their high degree of photoactivity, thermal stability, high surface area, and malleability. In the present review, we focus on several nanocomposite types used for the detection and photochemical reduction of CO</span><sub>2</sub>: titania-based nanocomposites, chalcogenide-based nanocomposites, LDHs-based nanocomposites, and MOFs-based nanocomposites. More specifically, trends in green synthesis nanocomposites, methods for detecting CO<sub>2</sub> compounds, and the photoreduction of those compounds are summarized in this paper. Several modified approaches to nanocomposite materials have been discussed to achieve optimum results. Generally, we find that the presence of functional active groups, doping metal, and other semiconductor materials act as catalysts, significantly enhancing the photoreduction properties of nano-materials. Moreover, we will also discuss additional challenges, especially in regard to large-scale industrial applications. In our discussion, we will highlight the use of nanocomposite-based materials in the detection and photoreduction of CO<sub>2</sub>. It is hoped that our findings will serve as a reference and inspiration for academic researchers and industrial professionals.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56032,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article e00142"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.teac.2021.e00142","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48883356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Molecularly imprinted polymer-carbon paste electrode (MIP-CPE)-based sensors for the sensitive detection of organic and inorganic environmental pollutants: A review","authors":"Bahar Mostafiz , Sara Arjomand Bigdeli , Kamran Banan , Hanif Afsharara , Dara Hatamabadi , Parastoo Mousavi , Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain , Rüstem Keçili , Fatemeh Ghorbani-Bidkorbeh","doi":"10.1016/j.teac.2021.e00144","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.teac.2021.e00144","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The rapidly growing existence of a number of contaminants (i.e. heavy metals, dye compounds, explosives and pesticides etc.) in environment is an alarming concern not only due to their harmful impacts for the environment bur also due to their potential high risk for human health. Thus, the careful and sensitive detection of these environmental contaminants is ver crucial. Electrochemical sensors combined with molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) become an attractive area for environmental monitoring. Benefiting from their great features such as high chemical and physical stability, cheap preparation process, excellent selectivity, sensitivity and fast response towards the target compound/s.</p><p>This review paper aims to present and highlight the latest progresses in the design and development of novel electrochemical sensor systems composed of MIPs and carbon paste electrodes (CPEs) for the sensitive detection of pollutants in environmental samples.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56032,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article e00144"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.teac.2021.e00144","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42194693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electroanalytical methods based on bimetallic nanomaterials for determination of pesticides: Past, present, and future","authors":"Cigdem Kanbes Dindar, Cem Erkmen, Bengi Uslu","doi":"10.1016/j.teac.2021.e00145","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.teac.2021.e00145","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The excessive use of pesticides in agricultural or non-agricultural fields causes the emergence of environmental and human health problems. Therefore, there is a need to develop simple, fast, sensitive, selective, and low-cost methods for analyzing pesticides from different matrices. Although many analysis methods have been developed to determine pesticides, nanomaterial-based electroanalytical methods offer numerous advantages such as rapid and low cost of analysis, low sample volume requirement, field deployability, and miniaturization to improve the performance of the developed methods. Among different nanomaterials, bimetallic nanomaterials such as gold, platinum, palladium, nickel, and iron-based nanomaterials in combination with other metals have been extensively used as electrode modification agents due to their electrocatalytic characteristics and the synergistic effect of two metals. In this review, firstly, the basic information of pesticides and bimetallic nanomaterials was summarized. Properties, synthesize, and architectures of bimetallic nanomaterials and their nanocomposites were explained in detail. Current applications and utilization of bimetallic nanomaterials for pesticides detection were reviewed by selected studies with working range, the limit of detection, sensitivity, analytical application, and some experimental conditions. In conclusion, the current challenges and future trends for analyzing pesticides based on electroanalytical methods combined with bimetallic nanomaterials were highlighted.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56032,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article e00145"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46502754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}