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- The review provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in detecting heavy metal ion pollution, emphasizing various sensing strategies like spectrometry, electrochemical methods, and optical techniques.
- It highlights the growing interest in fluorescent sensors due to their advantages such as high specificity, reversibility, and sensitivity, making them essential for quick detection.
- The review also focuses on the role of nanomaterials, particularly fluorescent nanomaterials like organic dyes and quantum dots, in improving the detection and removal of heavy metal ions from water and understanding their environmental impact.
Article Abstract
The main aim of this review is to provide a holistic summary of the latest advances within the research area focusing on the detection of heavy metal ion pollution, particularly the sensing strategies. The review explores various heavy metal ion detection approaches, encompassing spectrometry, electrochemical methods, and optical techniques. Numerous initiatives have been undertaken in recent times in response to the increasing demand for fast, sensitive, and selective sensors. Notably, fluorescent sensors have acquired prominence owing to the numerous advantages such as good specificity, reversibility, and sensitivity. Further, this review also explores the advantages of various nanomaterials employed in sensing heavy metal ions. In this regard, exclusive emphasis is placed on fluorescent nanomaterials based on organic dyes, quantum dots, and fluorescent aptasensors for metal ion removal from aqueous systems, and to identify the fate of heavy metal ions in the natural environment.
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