Environmental Analysis by Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors: Applications (Nanostructure Science and Technology)

This book discusses in detail the analysis and monitoring of the most important analytes in the environmental field. It also reviews the implementation, realization and application of sensor designs mentioned in the first volume of this set, dividing the coverage into global parameters, sensors of organics and sensors of inorganics. "Electrochemical sensors represent the oldest type of chemical sensors and are widely present in chemical laboratories, industries, healthcare and in many aspects of our daily life. During the past few decades biosensors mimicking biological receptors for the sake of analytical assessment have emerged as an extremely important and fruitful field in fundamental and applied electroanalytical chemistry. Research and routine analysis in environmental sciences have shown that electrochemical sensors and biosensors may supply useful information for solving problems from the quite general to the highly specific, dealing with environmental pollution or many other questions in connection with (bio)geochemical cycles or fundamental environmental chemical processes. Environmental analytical chemistry is a multidisciplinary field requiring the cooperation of chemists, biochemists, physicists, engineers and many other specialists, a collaboration which defines and guarantees the development and applicability of robust and highly sensitive sensors for chemical analysis and environmental monitoring. The aim of this book is to give an overview of the role of electrochemical sensors in environmental chemical analysis and on their operating principles. It provides detailed information on the applicability of such sensors to the determination of all the different substances of environmental importance. It is designed on one hand as a textbook for students and teachers, and, on the other, as a manual for researchers and applied scientists and engineers who are fully or marginally confronted with problems in context with environmental chemistry. Due to its multidisciplinary character the book synthesizes various viewpoints of different sciences and addresses chemists, physicists, pharmacists, medical doctors, engineers and in fact all who are interested, professionally or non-professionally, in the chemistry of our environment."-- Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Front Matter....Pages 717-717 Chemical Oxygen Demand....Pages 719-728 Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)....Pages 729-734 Dissolved Oxygen....Pages 735-749 pH Measurements....Pages 751-777 Front Matter....Pages 779-779 Metals....Pages 781-825 Non-metal Inorganic Ions and Molecules....Pages 827-839 Electroanalysis and Chemical Speciation....Pages 841-854 Nanoparticles-Emerging Contaminants....Pages 855-878 Front Matter....Pages 879-879 Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products....Pages 881-903 Surfactants....Pages 905-930 Determination of Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Their Derivatives....Pages 931-963 Explosives....Pages 965-979 Pesticides....Pages 981-1020 Front Matter....Pages 1021-1021 Volatile Organic Compounds....Pages 1023-1046 Sulphur Compounds....Pages 1047-1067 Nitrogen Compounds: Ammonia, Amines and NO x ....Pages 1069-1109 Carbon Oxides....Pages 1111-1133 Front Matter....Pages 1135-1135 Data Treatment of Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors....Pages 1137-1151 Back Matter....Pages 1153-1172