Fluorescent Sensors for the Detection of Toxic Elements and Environmentally-Related Pollutants

Tahir Rasheed is a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Advanced Materials, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. His research interests focus on multiple disciplines including controllable synthesis, characterization and self-assembly of polymeric materials, polymer-based composites, nanomaterials and nanocomposites, and hybrid nanocomposites, with special emphasis on their potential applications in the field of sensing and biosensing, electrocatalysis, and the degradation and quantification of various emerging pollutants.

PART I: Fluorescent Sensors for the Detection of Toxic Elements and Environmentally-Related Pollutants 1. Introduction 2. Strategies to improve sensitivity and selectivity PART II: Detection of Toxic Pollutants 3. Alkali and alkaline earth Metal sensing 4. Heavy Metals Sensing 5. Radio Nuclide Sensing 6. Anion Sensing 7. Gas Sensing 8. Volatile Organic Compound Sensing 9. Nitroaromatics Sensing 10. Biological molecules Sensing 11. Food toxins sensing 12. Miscellaneous Species Sensing 13. Challenges and future Prospects in fluorescent optical sensing