Electrochemiluminescence sensors and forensic investigations : a viable technique for drug detection?
Brown, Kelly and Dennany, Lynn (2022) Electrochemiluminescence sensors and forensic investigations : a viable technique for drug detection? Pure and Applied Chemistry, 94 (5). pp. 535-545. ISSN 0033-4545 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2021-1204)
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Abstract
Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) are today considered one of the major ticking public health time bombs in regard to drug abuse. The inability to identify these substances with current screening methods, sees their distribution remain uninterrupted and contributes to the high death rates amongst users. To tackle this problem, it is vital that new robust screening methods are developed, addressing the limitation of those currently in place, namely colour subjectivity and lack of compatibility with the complex matrices these substances may be found within. To this avail, electrochemical methods have been assessed. These low cost and extremely portable sensors have been successfully applied for the direct detection of a broad range of compounds of interest in a range of matrices including, herbal material, commercial drinks and biological fluids (serum, saliva, sweat and urine). With their high versatility, gifted through a significant degree of flexibility in regard to electrode material a range of sensors have to date been reported. In this review the various electrochemical sensors developed to date for NPS detection will be compared and contrasted, with a special focus upon those utilising electrochemiluminescence (ECL) technology.
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Brown, Kelly and Dennany, Lynn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5481-1066;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 80101 Dates: DateEvent25 May 2022Published24 March 2022Published Online8 March 2022AcceptedSubjects: Science > Chemistry Department: Faculty of Science > Pure and Applied Chemistry
Strategic Research Themes > Measurement Science and Enabling Technologies
Strategic Research Themes > Health and WellbeingDepositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 06 Apr 2022 16:23 Last modified: 05 Dec 2024 01:20 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/80101