Chapter 3

Electrochemical Biosensors Based on Nanomaterials for Detection of Pesticides and Explosives

Dan Du1,3, Abdullah Mohamed Asiri2, Jun Wang4 and Yuehe Lin2,3,    1Key Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, PR China,    2Chemistry Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia,    3School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA,    4Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA

In this chapter, we describe nanomaterial-based biosensors for detecting pesticides and explosives. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and functionalized silica nanoparticles have been chosen for this study. ...

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