The rapid industrialization and urbanization of the past century have led to significant environmental pollution, presenting challenges to human health and the ecosystems that sustain life. Traditional methods for detecting environmental pollutants, such as gas chromatography, high-performance liquid chromatography, and mass spectrometry, often require complex sample preparation, expensive instrumentation, and significant time to obtain results. This has underscored the need for more efficient, cost-effective, and rapid detection methods. In this context, nanomaterials have emerged as a promising solution, offering advanced capabilities for sensing and detecting emerging environmental pollutants. Nanomaterials, due to their unique properties at the nanoscale, enable the creation of highly sensitive and selective sensors capable of identifying low concentrations of pollutants that would otherwise be difficult to detect. The application of nanomaterials in sensor technology holds great potential for revolutionizing the detection and monitoring of environmental pollutants, especially in the face of emerging contaminants.
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