| Pollution of environment with toxic phenolic compounds represents a severe health risk. The detection and quantification of phenolic compounds play an important role in many applications, including environmental monitoring, waste management and clinical toxicology. Conventional analytical techniques for phenolic compounds such as spectrophotometry and chromatography have strong accuracy but suffer from their own disadvantages of high cost, the need for trained personnel and the fact that they are mostly laboratory bound. Express analysis especially biosensors have the great potential for the advantages of specificity, low cost, ease of use and real time detection. |
