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ArticleCurrent opinion in electrochemistry2025

Recent Trends in Electrochemical Methods for Real-Time Detection of Heavy Metals in Water and Soil: A Review.

Pythagore L Kyabutwa, Nadiah Alyamni, Jandro L Abot, Alexander G Zestos

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Article in Current opinion in electrochemistry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Environmental Electrochemistry (2025):Current opinion in electrochemistry · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Pythagore L KyabutwaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 20064, USA.
Nadiah AlyamniDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 20064, USA.
Jandro L AbotDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 20064, USA.
Alexander G ZestosDepartment of Chemistry, American University, Washington, D.C. 20016, USA.

Funding

Dual-function Carbon Modified-Silicon Microelectrodes for Biomolecule Detection with Fast Scan Cyclic Voltammetry and Electrophysiology Recording and StimulationR41MH139088 · NIMH · SPIKE NEURO LLC · PI ZESTOS, ALEXANDROS GEORGE · 2024 to 2025
$1.0M
Multielectrode Arrays for Neurotransmitter Detection with Fast Scan Cyclic VoltammetryR41NS113702 · NINDS · MICROPROBES FOR LIFE SCIENCE, INC. · PI ZESTOS, ALEXANDROS GEORGE · 2019 to 2019
$145k
NIMH NIH HHS R41 MH139088NINDS NIH HHS R41 NS113702
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heavy trace elements (HTEs), including toxic metals such as Pb, Hg, Cd, and As, present a growing environmental and public health concern due to their persistence and bioaccumulation in water and soil systems. Driven by increased demand for strategic and rare earth metals in emerging technologies, anthropogenic activities such as mining, industrial discharge, and agriculture have intensified environmental contamination. Traditional detection methods such as atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS), inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), and X-ray fluorescence (XRFS), although highly sensitive, are limited by their cost, complexity, and lack of suitability for continuous measurement (real-time) without taking samples to the laboratory for analysis (

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Carbon NanotubeDetectionElectrochemistryHeavy MetalsNanomaterials

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PMID40989831
PMCPMC12453067

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