Nanoplastics are associated with several risks to the ecology and toxicity to humans.
Nanoplastics are synthetic polymers with dimensions ranging from 1 nm to 1 μm. They are …

Functionalized conducting polymers (FCPs) have recently garnered attention as ion-
selective sensor materials, surpassing their intrinsic counterparts due to synergistic effects …

The potential adverse effects of nanoplastics, such as nanopolystyrene, have received the
great attention recently. However, the molecular response of organisms to nanoplastics is …

Nanoplastics represented by nanopolystyrene (NPS) and its chemically modified derivatives
are environmentally ecotoxicological hotpots in recent years, but their toxicity and underlying …

Particles of various types of plastics, including polystyrene nanoparticles (PS-NPs), have
been determined in human blood, placenta, and lungs. These findings suggest a potential …

Ion-selective sensors, including optodes, explore ion-exchange at the interface to observe
analyte ion binding to neutral ionophore in the probe bulk. Typically the optical transducer …

Classical approach for cation selective optode sensing requires high lipophilicity of receptor
matrix and optical transducer dye, its application is restricted to relatively narrow pH range …

The selectivity of ionophore-based sensors is crucial to real applications such as clinical
diagnostics and bioimaging. Previous ion-selective nanosensors developed from …

It has recently been reported that polystyrene microbeads may be modified to realize
plasticizer-free ion-selective optical sensors (optodes) on the basis of solvatochromic dye …

An alternative optical signal transduction mechanism for ion-selective optodes is proposed.
The nanostructural sensors benefit from ion-selective reversing aggregation caused …