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Electrochemical Sensors for Environmental Analysis

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Introduction

The electrochemical sensors, according to IUPAC definitions and classification, are a category of chemical sensors [1], designed by coupling the receptor part of the device to an electrochemical transducer. The transducer transforms the analytical information originating from the electrochemical interaction analyte-electrode into a measurable electrical signal. A large number of electrochemical sensors, including biosensors, are based on chemically modified electrodes [2, 3].

The electrochemical sensors are compact, portable, and simple to handle instruments, able to provide analytical information in a real time, without or with a minimum sample preparation. These performances, in concert with their sensitivity, selectivity, and low cost, make them suitable for infield and online environmental analysis [4–7] and an excellent complement to the expensive and time-consuming off-sitechromatographic and adsorption or emission spectrometric methods, currently applied in...

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  1. Instituto de Ingenieria, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Blvd. B. Juarez s/n, 21280, Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico

    Margarita Stoytcheva & Roumen Zlatev

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  2. Yokohama National University, Fac. Engineering, Yokohama, Japan

    Ken-ichiro Ota

  3. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

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Stoytcheva, M., Zlatev, R. (2014). Electrochemical Sensors for Environmental Analysis. In: Kreysa, G., Ota, Ki., Savinell, R.F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Applied Electrochemistry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6996-5_449

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