Environmental implications of nanozymes-based pesticide monitoring in water bodies

Abstract

Because of the high substrate specificity and catalytic activities, natural enzymes have been favorably employed in studies of biomedical, industrial, chemistry, and biological areas. In spite of encouraging, the main disadvantage in this regard is that enzymes can be obtained and purified in low quantities at high cost. To eliminate this problem, scientists have focused on researching artificial enzymes that can mimic enzyme behavior in recent years. Nanozymes are nanomaterial-based artificial enzymes. Synthetic pesticides are widely utilized in agricultural activities to control detrimental pests and prohibit product damage and cropper yield losses. Because of extreme biological activity and longtime permanence in the environmental mediums, pesticides can induce undesired effects to living beings and to the environment. Environmental pollution caused by pesticides, one of the biggest problems of today, is being a global and public issue that not only influences our ordinary way of life but also may insomuch endangering all living life on earth in future. Therefore, trustworthy analytical methods are needed for the analysis of them. The determination of pesticides can be carried out quantitatively and qualitatively with nanozymes-based sensor systems. © 2024 Elsevier Inc. All rights are reserved including those for text and data mining AI training and similar technologies.