Electrochemical Sensing System Utilizing Simazine-Imprinted Polymer Receptor for the Detection of Simazine in Tap Water

Environmental Fate of Simazine

Public Health Goal for Simazine in Drinking Water, September 2001

Office of the President for their peer reviews of the public health goal documents, and gratefully acknowledge the comments received from all interested parties. This Public Health Goal (PHG) technical support document provides information on health effects from contaminants in drinking water. PHGs are developed for chemical contaminants based on the best available toxicological data in the sci...

Integrated optical surface plasmon resonance immunoprobe for simazine detection.

This paper presents the detailed design and characterisation of a regenerable integrated optical surface plasmon resonance immunoprobe as a detector for the triazine herbicide simazine. A sensor design theoretically optimised for use in the aqueous environment is presented and its fabrication described. Experimental results on the sensitivity to changes in bulk refractive index of the analyte a...

Detection of Atrazine, Simazine, and Their Breakdown Products in Public Water Supply Wells

Atrazine and simazine are pre-emergence herbicides that are known to contaminate ground water from normal agricultural use. According to a recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) re-registration eligibility decision for atrazine, the breakdown products of atrazine and simazine were determined to be as toxic as the parent chemical. Consequently, EPA concluded that the concentrations of...

Controlled release of the herbicide simazine from computationally designed molecularly imprinted polymers.

The present study describes the development of materials suitable for environmental control of algae. Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) were used as simazine carriers able to provide the controlled release of simazine into water. Three polymers were designed using computational modelling. The selection of methacrylic acid (MA) and hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEM) as functional monomers was b...