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Alcohol quantification: recent insights into amperometric enzyme biosensors

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Pages 398-410 | Received 24 Jan 2017, Accepted 31 Mar 2017, Published online: 17 Apr 2017
 

Abstract

Biosensors are the switching channels that make sense. The biosensors have found an empirical role in health applications (e.g. clinical diagnostics) as they represent the technological counterpart of living senses. On a global scale, alcohol analysis is indispensable for criminal justice systems, monitoring medical conditions of HIV patients & pregnant women as well as public safety issues regarding pilots, metro drivers, doctors etc. For addressing the clinical and toxicological problems, much advancement in the improvement of biosensors have been witnessed in recent decades. Currently, electrochemical biosensors dominate the field which harnesses the synergistic action of enzymes and nanomaterials for the analysis of ethanol. The enzymatic biosensors are the most explored biosensing devices among all the types of biosensors, and employment of nanomaterials has paved a way to the further improvements in this gem of a discovery. The relative comparison to precise the alcohol biosensors has been aptly discussed in the review on the basis of several analytical properties including fabrication, linearity, sensitivity, response time, detection limit as well as storage stability. Finally, the recent trends and emerging future prospects of alcohol biosensors have been reviewed.

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