{"title":"Perspectives of magnetic nature carbon dots in analytical chemistry: From separation to detection and bioimaging","authors":"Suresh Kumar Kailasa , Janardhan Reddy Koduru","doi":"10.1016/j.teac.2021.e00153","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.teac.2021.e00153","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Magnetic nature carbon dots (MNCDs) are fast growing materials with extremely unique physico-chemical properties and physiological ability to extend their applications from separation science to detection and bio-/magnetic resonance imaging applications. Recent studies have revealed that the MNCDs are significantly used as promising agents in analytical chemistry for the separation and identification of trace level target analytes. Further, the MNCDs have been used as probes for bioimaging of cells and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of tumors. Due to the lack of comprehensive reviews in this emerging field especially MNCDs applications in analytical chemistry, this review may provide quick guide and reference on the MNCDs-based analytical approaches for the separation and detection of trace level analytes, and bio- and MR- imaging of various cells. In this review article, we will summarize the synthetic approaches for the fabrication of MNCDs. The main part of this proposed review is devoted to the tremendous applications of MNCDs (Fe<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub>@CDs, metal ion (Fe<sup>3+</sup>, Mn<sup>2+</sup>, Co<sup>2+</sup> and Gd<sup>2+</sup>)-doped CDs, MnO<sub>2</sub>@CDs) in analytical chemistry from separation science to detection and bio- and MR imaging. Finally, we will explore the challenges and future prospects of magneto fluorescent carbon dots in biomedical applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56032,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44348266","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}
Batuira M. da Costa Filho, Armando C. Duarte, Teresa A.P. Rocha-Santos
{"title":"Environmental monitoring approaches for the detection of organic contaminants in marine environments: A critical review","authors":"Batuira M. da Costa Filho, Armando C. Duarte, Teresa A.P. Rocha-Santos","doi":"10.1016/j.teac.2022.e00154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.teac.2022.e00154","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This review reports different approaches for monitoring the presence of organic contaminants in marine environments. From the traditional standard chromatographic methodologies coupled to different detectors to the recent advances in sensor technology, different strategies have been adopted by researchers aiming to provide more comprehensive, realistic and accurate environmental monitoring data sets. Reports on chemical analysis by different techniques of marine water and sediments, using grab and passive sampling techniques, are the most abundant in literature, showing relevant developments. Analysis of the marine biota (biomonitoring) has also been widely used as a proxy for the detection of organic chemicals in seawater, with bivalves being the most used as sentinel specie. Such biomonitoring can provide insights on bioavailability and bioaccumulation of organic pollutants, which is not possible to obtain by water and sediment analysis solely. Furthermore, effect-based methods are also presented as an important approach when it comes to obtain environmental meaningful data, such as potential toxicity and hazards posed by the complex chemical mixtures to local biota. This approach is reported to be a useful tool for screening areas without any previous knowledge on chemical composition, with subsequential qualitative and quantitative characterization being performed by chemical analysis. Finally, some of the most recent developments in sensor and biosensor technology for environmental purposes are also discussed, with some proof-of-concept studies showing promising results. However, further development and validations work is strongly advised prior to the use of those sensing platforms in real field trials.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56032,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137083817","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":"Critical review on the development of analytical techniques for the elemental analysis of airborne particulate matter","authors":"Monika Ogrizek , Ana Kroflič , Martin Šala","doi":"10.1016/j.teac.2022.e00155","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.teac.2022.e00155","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Among all environmental pollutants, particulate matter (PM) poses the major threat to our health. These tiny airborne particles vary in shape and composition, which is reflected in their hazardous potential. The particles are small enough to penetrate deep into the lungs and even enter the bloodstream, causing severe diseases. Therefore, their regular monitoring is required. Toxic metals and other elements are often measured by regulatory agencies as well as in research laboratories, either to compare ambient concentrations with prescribed limit values or to study provenance of air pollution sources in order to target PM pollution mitigation strategies. The most established method for the determination of regulated Pb, Cd, As, Ni and other elements in PM is microwave digestion inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (MW/ICPMS), whereas X-ray fluorescence (XRF) techniques have also often been used, especially in research. In this review paper we critically assess these two and three other analytical techniques (<em>i.e.,</em> LA-ICPMS, PIXE and INAA) for element determination in PM deposited on filter media. All aspects from sample treatment to measurement range and limitations, costs and waste management are considered. In conclusion we identify XRF and LA-ICPMS as two promising surface techniques for the analysis of a PM deposit on a filter, which could replace the laborious wet MW/ICPMS method, which is – considering its wide use, very incriminating to the environment. In short, EDXRF is the cheapest, simplest for use and already customized for PM samples, whereas LA-ICPMS is promising, but still needs some development in the direction of autosamplers and matrix-matched standards for calibration.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56032,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Environmental Analytical Chemistry","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214158822000022/pdfft?md5=732e53e85895e53bfc2d72f35cf06d9f&pid=1-s2.0-S2214158822000022-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47791488","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":"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":null,"pages":null},"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}
{"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":null,"pages":null},"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}
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":null,"pages":null},"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}
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":null,"pages":null},"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}
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":null,"pages":null},"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":null,"pages":null},"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}
{"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":null,"pages":null},"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}