Affiliation:
1. Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, India
Abstract
Increasing concern about levels of pollution in the aquatic environment has led to the adoption of a number of preventive measures to assist in maintaining the quality of water bodies. The development of new user-friendly, portable, and low-cost bioanalytical methods is the focus of research, and biosensors are in the forefront of these research works. Biosensors have various prospective and existing applications in the detection of contaminants in the aquatic environment by transducing a signal. Biosensors are able to detect a wide range of analytes in complex matrices and have proven a great potential in environment monitoring, clinical diagnostics and food analysis Hence, the aim of this work is to provide a description of the state of the art about the development and application of biosensors to detect contaminants in freshwater ecosystems.