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Nanomaterial-based aptamer sensors for analysis of illicit drugs and evaluation of drugs consumption for wastewater-based epidemiology TEXT SIZE: A A A
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. (C) 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
 

Publication name

 TRAC-TRENDS IN ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY Volume: 130 Article Number: 115975 DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2020.115975
Published: SEP 2020

Author(s)

 Mao, Kang; Zhang, Hua; Pan, Yuwei; Zhang, Kuankuan; Cao, Haorui; Li, Xiqing; Yang, Zhugen

Corresponding author(s) 

 ZHANG Hua 
 zhanghua@mail.gyig.ac.cn
 Chinese Acad Sci, State Key Lab Environm Geochem, Inst Geochem, Guiyang 550081, Peoples R China.
 YANG Zhugen
 zhugen.yang@cranfield.ac.uk
 Cranfield Univ, Cranfield Water Sci Inst, Cranfield MK43 0AL, Beds, England.

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