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Nanotechnology Assets in Biosensors Design for Environmental Monitoring

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Nanomaterials: A Danger or a Promise?

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In the last decade an intensive research effort has been performed in the field of biosensors design. These tools are very promising to detect chemical pollutants in the environment because they can provide rapid, sensitive, simple, and low-cost on-field detection. Nowadays the use of nanomaterials for the construction of biosensing devices constitutes one of the most exciting approaches. The extremely promising prospects of these devices accrue from the unique properties of nanomaterials. Different nanostructures can be employed and the assets of this new technology in biosensors design are reviewed in this chapter. The properties related to these nanomaterials used in the different transduction modes are presented at first, and then we discuss the interest of nanotechnologies to provide a stable immobilization of biomolecules in retaining their bioactivity. Enzymes-based biosensors, immunosensors, and cell-based biosensors are finally considered separately in their use for environmental monitoring application. The main advantages of the different nanosensing devices are discussed.

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