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Biosensors: A Tool for Environmental Monitoring and Analysis

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Biosensor is an analytical tool that consists an immobilized biological component to react with analyte; subsequently, the produced biological signal is converted to a readable signal with the help of a transducer. Biosensors are of great importance because of their several advantages over the conventional techniques in the field of analysis. Biosensors are researched and applied in several diverse areas, such as health, medicine, defense, agriculture and food safety, industry and environmental monitoring, etc. Present chapter provides an overview of application of biosensors in the field of environmental analysis and monitoring. Strategies developed involving different biocomponents, bioassay principle, transducers, and their application for different groups of analytes; for example, pesticides, BOD, heavy metals, and other categories of environmental pollutants have been discoursed. Future trends and commercial aspects of environmental biosensor have also been discussed.

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Suryan, S.K. (2017). Biosensors: A Tool for Environmental Monitoring and Analysis. In: Kumar, R., Sharma, A., Ahluwalia, S. (eds) Advances in Environmental Biotechnology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4041-2_16

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