Fluorescent Sensors for the Detection of Toxic Elements and Environmentally-Related Pollutants

Fluorescent Sensors for the Detection of Toxic Elements and Environmentally-Related Pollutants highlights the recent technological advancements of sensing applications for a variety of toxic elements and pollutants using small and supra-molecular materials as advanced chemical sensors. During the past decade, there has been an increasing amount of research on the detection of these pollutants due to the growing awareness of environmental contamination. This book focuses on increasing scientific and technological awareness in order to tackle pollutants arising from various industrial and biotechnological sectors. In addition, the book discusses the most advanced industrial scale sensing materials and addresses current challenges during manufacturing and application. It will be a valuable reference source for materializing the synthesis of predesigned small and supramolecular fluorescent sensors of interest by presenting different strategies that can serve as a promising tool for researchers.

PART I: Fluorescent Sensors for the Detection of Toxic Elements and Environmentally-Related Pollutants 1. Introduction 2. Strategies to improve sensitivity and selectivity PART II: Detection of Toxic Pollutants 3. Alkali and alkaline earth Metal sensing 4. Heavy Metals Sensing 5. Radio Nuclide Sensing 6. Anion Sensing 7. Gas Sensing 8. Volatile Organic Compound Sensing 9. Nitroaromatics Sensing 10. Biological molecules Sensing 11. Food toxins sensing 12. Miscellaneous Species Sensing 13. Challenges and future Prospects in fluorescent optical sensing

Tahir Rasheed is a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Advanced Materials, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. His research interests focus on multiple disciplines including controllable synthesis, characterization and self-assembly of polymeric materials, polymer-based composites, nanomaterials and nanocomposites, and hybrid nanocomposites, with special emphasis on their potential applications in the field of sensing and biosensing, electrocatalysis, and the degradation and quantification of various emerging pollutants.

• Presents systematic approaches for detecting various chemical toxic analytes and different toxic species
• Offers modern designs for industrial scale sensing applications for various environmental pollutants
• Addresses chronological advancements of small and supra-molecular materials as advanced chemical sensors