ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2026
Advances in Carbon Dot-Based Optical (Bio)Sensors for Contaminant Detection in Wastewater-Based Epidemiology.
Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has emerged as a powerful approach for population-level monitoring of chemical exposure, health status, and disease transmission by analysing wastewater. Although chromatographic and molecular techniques remain the gold standard in WBE, their high cost, infrastructural demands, and limited suitability for decentralized and real-time monitoring motivate the development of complementary sensing technologies. In this context, optical (bio)sensors, particularly fluorescence-based platforms, have attracted increasing attention due to their high sensitivity, rapid response, and potential for on-site monitoring. This review discusses recent advances in fluorescent optical (bio)sensors for WBE, with a particular focus on carbon dots (CDs), including waste- and biomass-derived CDs produced via green synthesis as well as CDs obtained from commercial chemicals. The applicability of CD-based sensors to wastewater-relevant analytes is evaluated, highlighting current achievements, as well as existing limitations and challenges related to real-sample validation and the translation of these platforms into robust, field-deployable systems for their implementation in sustainable wastewater monitoring and public health surveillance.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.