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Journal of Sensors
Volume 2016, Article ID 4108790, 1 page
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4108790

Editorial
Sensors for Environmental Monitoring

Liling Fu,1 Panagiotis Dallas,2 Virender K. Sharma,3 and Kewei Zhang4

1
Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
2
Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PH, UK
3
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
4
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030024, China

Correspondence should be addressed to Liling Fu; lf268@cornell.edu

Received 19 June 2016; Accepted 19 June 2016

Copyright 2016 Liling Fu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which
permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Many potentially harmful chemicals, released by industries Acknowledgments

and human activities, can contaminate water, soil, or air and
further impact the environment and public health. Real- The guest editors of this special issue are most grateful to all
time and in situ monitoring of various contaminants such the authors and reviewers who have generously contributed
as pathogens, metals, radioisotopes, volatile organic com- to this special issue.
pounds, crude oil, and agricultural chemicals at low levels
Liling Fu
is mandatory in the fields of industrial plants, automotive
Panagiotis Dallas
technologies, health and medicine, air and water quality
Virender K. Sharma
control, natural soil/land/sea, and so forth. Reliable sensing
Kewei Zhang
technologies with high performance are highly desirable to
address these issues. Sensitivity, selectivity, and limit of detec-
tion are several key parameters to evaluate the performance
of sensors. The aim of this special issue is to present original
research articles on all kinds of sensors for monitoring
environment. The topics cover various aspects including
design and fabrication of sensor platforms for environmental
monitoring, theoretical studies in sensing mechanisms and
principles for environmental monitoring, sensors for real-
time and in situ monitoring environments, detection of
pathogen in water, monitoring pollutant gases, inspection
and monitoring of contaminated soil/land/sea, development
of portable sensors for environmental monitoring, and mul-
titarget detection in environmental monitoring. The papers
in this special issue provide significant scientific contribution
to the development and applications of sensing technologies
in environmental monitoring. With respect to the above,
this collection of articles is expected to be of interest for
environmental engineering practitioners and researchers.
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