Applications of Carbon Nanotubes-Based Electrochemical Sensing Strategies for Heavy Metals and Arsenic Quantification

RODRÍGUEZ, MARCELA C.; RIVAS, GUSTAVO A.; EGUÍLAZ, MARCOS; GUTIERREZ, FABIANA A.; GALLAY, PABLO; RUBIANES, MARÍA D.

Pure and Functionalized Carbon Based Nanomaterials: Analytical, Biomedical, Civil and Environmental Engineering Applications

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Año: 2019; p. 175 - 227

The general concept of this book was predominantly inspired by my hobby,which was recreational scuba diving and underwater photography. I startedthis activity in the diving club ?Rekin? (Gdańsk, Poland) in 1995. After afew years of extensive training, mainly under cold and dark Polish lakesand Baltic Sea conditions, I had an opportunity to discover the beauty ofthe underwater world and transparent seawater surrounding Elba Island atthe Tyrrhenian Sea. Then, I moved with my family to Newcastle (NSW,Australia), where I worked as a visiting scientist at John Hunter Hospital,focusing on separation science and analysis of biological samples. Duringthat time I did several diving trips, enabling macro underwater photography atnight, mainly with diving staff from Charlestown Diving Academy, over thegreat diving spots of Port Stephens and Newcastle areas. The picture on this book cover presents thedark background, which is a fossil coal, and fragile marine snails, called bubble shell (Cephalaspidea),moving on it. Such rather unique underwater scenery is typical for the Newcastle seashore, whereseveral shallow water areas are covered by natural organic carbon layers. In my opinion, this macropicture can be a good illustration of various carbon forms available on the Earth, starting from rawcarbon transformed from living organisms during long-term geological processes, and the beautyof carbon-based biopolymers forming a variety of living bodies. Presently, I changed my activitymore to sailing, which still enables me to combine my hobby and work, most recently resulting innon-commercial, non-hypothesis driven studies and self-funded RoSSY (research on small sailingyacht) project. This research relates to bioanalytical studies, involving elaboration of new microseparation analytical devices and testing various biopolymers and carbon materials as the extractionand samples collection media, mainly for quantification of low-molecular mass micropollutants andbiomarkers in surface water ecosystems.