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Electrochemical Detection of Heavy Metals

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Heavy metals effluence poses a severe threat to environmental systems and a huge challenge for global sustainability. To monitor and detect heavy metals pollution in the environment, a portable point of care sensing platform is required. The detection of heavy metals ion using electrochemical sensors is considered a unique and perfect class of sensor technology. This chapter focuses on the use of voltammetry techniques for the detection of heavy metals ions using nanomaterials like carbon nanomaterials, polymers, metal oxides nanomaterials and metals nanomaterials. The voltammetry techniques were found to be effective in heavy metal ions detection owing to the ease of fabrication, chemical stability of sensors, low cost, selectivity, and sensitivity of nanomaterials electrochemical sensors. From the observed limits of detection for various metal ions detection from previous research, most electrochemical sensors made from nanomaterials showed selectivity and sensitivity towards heavy metals ions and were below the allowed level for each metal’s ions by the World Health Organization.

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Aigbe, U.O. et al. (2022). Electrochemical Detection of Heavy Metals. In: Ama, O.M., Sinha Ray, S., Ogbemudia Osifo, P. (eds) Modified Nanomaterials for Environmental Applications. Engineering Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85555-0_3

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