Rapid and Direct Analysis of Samples of Environmental Concerns
Despite extensive efforts to protect public health, disease outbreaks still occur when toxic chemicals and microbial threats evade detection. Though numerous techniques are available for contaminant detection in a variety of matrices, they are either laborious, costly or specifically adapted to a certain class of analysts. Thus, it is imperative to develop novel approaches for simple, fast, inexpensive and reliable methods to screen/characterize single and/or multiple contaminant classes sensitively.