Foods,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
13(24), P. 4125 - 4125
Published: Dec. 20, 2024
Mycotoxins
are
a
group
of
toxic
metabolites
produced
by
fungi
that
infect
agricultural
products.
Consuming
mycotoxin-contaminated
foods
and
feeds
can
cause
various
adverse
health
effects
in
humans
animals.
Therefore,
developing
rapid
sensitive
analytical
methods
for
detecting
mycotoxins
is
an
urgent
task.
The
molecularly
imprinted
technique
advanced
tool
the
specific
recognition
selective
enrichment
target
molecules.
For
development
detection
mycotoxins,
synthesized
polymers
(MIPs)
serve
as
elements.
By
integrating
MIPs
with
sensing
platforms,
such
solid-phase
extraction,
electrochemical
sensors,
fluorescence
surface-enhanced
Raman
spectroscopy,
surface
plasmonic
resonance
remarkable
progress
has
been
made
foods.
This
review
focuses
on
advances
application
over
past
five
years.
new
MIP
synthesis
categorized
summarized.
Moreover,
future
potential
MIP-based
mycotoxin
also
discussed
highlighted.
Progress in Materials Science,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
146, P. 101331 - 101331
Published: June 25, 2024
Borophene
stands
out
uniquely
among
Xenes
with
its
metallic
character,
Dirac
nature,
exceptional
electron
mobility,
thermal
conductivity,
and
Young's
moduli—surpassing
graphene.
Invented
in
2015,
various
methods,
including
atomic
layer
deposition,
molecular
beam
epitaxy,
chemical
vapor
have
successfully
been
demonstrated
to
realize
substrate-supported
crystal
growth.
Top-down
approaches
like
micromechanical,
sonochemical,
solvothermal
modified
hummer's
techniques
also
employed.
Thanks
high
electronic
borophene
serves
as
an
active
material
for
ultrafast
sensing
of
light,
gases,
molecules,
strain.
Its
behaviour,
electrochemical
activity,
anti-corrosive
nature
make
it
ideal
applications
energy
storage
catalysis.
It
has
proven
effective
electrocatalyst
HER,
OER,
water
splitting,
CO2
reduction,
NH3
reduction
reactions.
Beyond
this,
found
utility
bioimaging,
biosensing,
biomedical
applications.
A
special
emphasis
will
be
given
on
the
nanoarchitectonics
i.e.
doped
borophene-based
hybrids
other
2D
materials
nanoparticles
theoretical
understanding
these
emerging
systems
gain
more
insights
their
structure
properties,
aiming
manipulate
tailored
Heliyon,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
10(9), P. e29909 - e29909
Published: April 21, 2024
According
to
information
from
the
World
Health
Organization,
world
has
experienced
about
430
million
cases
of
COVID-19,
a
world-wide
health
crisis
caused
by
SARS-CoV-2
virus.
This
outbreak,
originating
China
in
2019,
led
nearly
6
deaths
worldwide.
As
number
confirmed
infections
continues
rise,
need
for
cutting-edge
techniques
that
can
detect
early
and
accurately
become
more
critical.
To
address
this,
Federal
Drug
Administration
(FDA)
issued
emergency
use
authorizations
(EUAs)
wide
range
diagnostic
tools.
These
include
tests
based
on
detecting
nucleic
acids
antigen-antibody
reactions.
The
quantitative
real-time
reverse
transcription
PCR
(qRT-PCR)
assay
stands
out
as
gold
standard
virus
detection.
However,
despite
its
accuracy,
qRT-PCR
limitations,
such
complex
testing
protocols
risk
false
negatives,
which
drive
continuous
improvement
acid
serological
approaches.
emergence
highly
contagious
variants
coronavirus,
Alpha
(B.1.1.7),
Delta
(B.1.617.2),
Omicron
(B.1.1.529),
increased
specifically
identify
these
mutations.
article
explores
both
acid-based
assays,
assessing
performance
recently
approved
FDA
those
documented
scientific
research,
especially
identifying
new
coronavirus
strains.
