Cyanotoxins are toxic and are found in eutrophic, municipal, and residential water supplies.
For this reason, their occurrence in drinking water systems has become a global concern …

A fast and high-throughput method is proposed for the determination of total microcystins
(ΣMC) in environmental surface waters. After a 1-h Lemieux-von Rudloff oxidation step to …

A wireless sensor network (WSN) has a huge potential in water ecology monitoring
applications. The integration of WSN to a portable sensing device offers the feasibility of …

Global warming and eutrophication make some aquatic ecosystems behave as true
bioreactors that trigger rapid and massive cyanobacterial growth; this has relevant health …

Biomedical sensors are often developed under a bottom-up approach, ie the researcher
point of view or laboratory approach. This is usually the case for microfluidic based …

Harmful algal blooms have markedly increased in frequency over the past two decades, due
to rising global temperatures and chemical runoff produced by modern farming practices …

Background: Cyanobacteria are a widely distributed group of photosynthetic prokaryotes
and are considered relevant contributors for the formation of the Earth's atmosphere. Many …

Conducting polymers (CPs) epitomize an interesting group of organic materials which
possess electrical conducting ability. After the discovery of halogen derivatives of poly …