About this Research Topic
Over the last decades, the agriculture field has exponentially grown due to the crescent demand for food. This growth required the utilization of large amounts of pesticides to perform effective pest control and keep food production. However, their indiscriminate use can affect human health, the environment, and even food production itself. Therefore, agriculture must evolve to become eco-friendly, which implies, for instance, the development of tools to decrease and/or monitor the utilization of synthetic agrochemicals. In this sense, nanotechnology may be extremely helpful because the nanomaterials can enhance the analytical performances of the sensing devices for customizing the use of pesticides and/or fertilizers.
Nanomaterials-based sensing devices, (i.e., quantum dots-based sensing) might be used to sense pesticide residues or other analytes, as well as to improve crop yield. However, assessing the environmental impact of such nanostructured devices to ensure no threats to ecology or human health because of their potential toxicities is mandatory.
This Research Topic will provide a transversal space for reporting nanomaterials-based sensing devices, their applications, and their potential environmental impact.
Taking into consideration the challenging scenario of agriculture, we would like to strongly encourage the submission of original research articles, as well as review papers that focus on the following themes:
• Rational design of a sensing strategy for analytes based on nanomaterials for agri-food applications;
• Nanomaterials-based sensing devices to detect different analytes or parameters of relevance in the environment;
• Utilization of nanomaterials as a probe to detect analytes in soil, plant, food or any other matrices of relevance;
These are the main themes that will especially be considered in the Research Topic.
However, it is worth to mention the research articles and review papers considered for publication are not limited by these themes
Nanomaterials-based sensing devices, (i.e., quantum dots-based sensing) might be used to sense pesticide residues or other analytes, as well as to improve crop yield. However, assessing the environmental impact of such nanostructured devices to ensure no threats to ecology or human health because of their potential toxicities is mandatory.
This Research Topic will provide a transversal space for reporting nanomaterials-based sensing devices, their applications, and their potential environmental impact.
Taking into consideration the challenging scenario of agriculture, we would like to strongly encourage the submission of original research articles, as well as review papers that focus on the following themes:
• Rational design of a sensing strategy for analytes based on nanomaterials for agri-food applications;
• Nanomaterials-based sensing devices to detect different analytes or parameters of relevance in the environment;
• Utilization of nanomaterials as a probe to detect analytes in soil, plant, food or any other matrices of relevance;
These are the main themes that will especially be considered in the Research Topic.
However, it is worth to mention the research articles and review papers considered for publication are not limited by these themes
Keywords: Nanomaterials, Sensing, analytes, environment, nanosafety
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