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Would you be comfortable doing so? Would testing data indicating that this water was cleaner than the public water supply be enough to put aside any trepidation? On a recent visit, I learned about Singapore’s NEWater1. Surrounded by the sea, with limited surface area and reservoir capacity and a growing population, Singapore has embraced advanced technology À including nanotechnology À to meet its water needs. The program uses advanced filtration, reverse osmosis and disinfection technologies to allow wastewater to supplement their potable water supply.
Sensors that are field-deployable and able to measure part-per-billion (ppb) or nanomolar levels of toxic pollutants will reduce time and costs associated with environmental monitoring of hazardous Street, Sustich, Duncan and Savage. Nanotechnology Applications for Clean Water, 2nd Edition. © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 1 (A) The ideal structures of an SWCNT and (B) a graphene sheet. From Ref. [4], reproduced by permission of Wiley-VCH. chemicals. Electrochemical sensors appear to be a very promising technique that offers desired characteristics such as field-deployability, selectivity, sensitivity, robustness, and inexpensiveness [1À3].
In this chapter, we focus only on the use of two carbon nanomaterials, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene-based sensors for water monitoring and environmental applications. CNTs are well-ordered, hollow graphitic nanomaterials made of cylinders of sp2-hybridized carbon atoms. They have high aspect ratios, high mechanical strength, high surface areas, excellent chemical and thermal stabilities, and rich electronic and optical properties [7]. The latter properties make CNTs important transducer materials in biosensors: high conductivity along their length means they are excellent nanoscale electrode materials [8À10].