Nanomaterial-Enabled Sensors and Therapeutic Platforms for Reactive Organophosphates.

ABSTRACT: Unintended exposure to harmful reactive organophosphates (OP), which comprise a group of nerve agents and agricultural pesticides, continues to pose a serious threat to human health and ecosystems due to their toxicity and prolonged stability. This underscores an unmet need for developing technologies that will allow sensitive OP detection, rapid decontamination and effective treatment of OP intoxication. Here, this article aims to review the status and prospect of emerging nanotechnologies and multifunctional nanomaterials that have shown considerable potential in advancing detection methods and treatment modalities. It begins with a brief introduction to OP types and their biochemical basis of toxicity followed by nanomaterial applications in two topical areas of primary interest. One to

SUBMITTER: Choi SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7830340 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature