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Microfluidics in environmental analysis: advancements, challenges, and future prospects for rapid and efficient monitoring

Prakash Aryal; Claire Hefner; Brandaise Martinez; Charles S. Henry

Lab on a Chip · 2024

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Summary

Microfluidic devices have emerged as advantageous tools for detecting environmental contaminants due to their portability, ease of use, cost-effectiveness, and rapid response capabilities. These devices have wide-ranging applications in environmental monitoring of air, water, and soil matrices, and have also been applied to agricultural monitoring. Although several previous reviews have explored microfluidic devices' utility, this paper presents an up-to-date account of the latest advancements in this field for environmental monitoring, looking back at the past five years. In this review, we discuss devices for prominent contaminants such as heavy metals, pesticides, nutrients, microorganisms, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), <i>etc.</i> We cover numerous detection methods (elec

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1039/d3lc00871a
Catalogue ID
NRmo9zxr64-013
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