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Nanomaterial-based aptamer sensors for analysis of illicit drugs and evaluation of drugs consumption for wastewater-based epidemiology.
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- A systematic review of sensors to combat crime and routes to further sensor development.Frontiers in chemistry · 2025Review
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- Electrochemical Rapid Detection of Methamphetamine from Confiscated Samples Using a Graphene-Based Printed Platform.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Trends and challenges in analytical chemistry for multi-analysis of illicit drugs employing wastewater-based epidemiology.Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry · 2023Article
- Recent Advances in the Development of Portable Electrochemical Sensors for Controlled Substances.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Microfluidic nanodevices for drug sensing and screening applications.Biosensors & bioelectronics · 2023Article
- A highly selective and sensitive competitive aptasensor capable of quantifying thrombin elevated with side effects in severe COVID-19.Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis · 2022Article
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Abstract
The abuse of illicit drugs usually associated with dramatic crimes may cause significant problems for the whole society. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has been demonstrated to be a novel and cost-effective way to evaluate the abuse of illicit drugs at the community level, and has been used as a routine method for monitoring and played a significant role for combating the crimes in some countries, e.g. China. The method can also provide temporal and spatial variation of drugs of abuse. The detection methods mainly remain on the conventional liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry, which is extremely sensitive and selective, however needs advanced facility and well-trained personals, thus limit it in the lab. As an alternative, sensors have emerged to be a powerful analytical tool for a wide spectrum of analytes, in particular aptamer sensors (aptasensors) have attracted increasing attention and could act as an efficient tool in this field due to the excellent characteristics of selectivity, sensitivity, low cost, miniaturization, easy-to-use, and automation. In this review, we will briefly introduce the context, specific assessment process and applications of WBE and the recent progress of illicit drug aptasensors, in particular focusing on optical and electrochemical sensors. We then highlight several recent aptasensors for illicit drugs in new technology integration and discuss the feasibility of these aptasensor for WBE. We will summarize the challenges and propose our insights and opportunity on aptasensor for WBE to evaluate community-wide drug use trends and public health.
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