Heavy metals and new pollutants constitute the two main sources of environmental pollution. In response to the complexity of trace detection technology and the lack of relevant detection technology for some new pollutants, Professor Zhu Gangbing and his students have recently made various efforts to construct a series of simple, highly sensitive, and high-precision new electrochemical/spectral sensors. For example, they have designed a new method for anodic stripping voltammetry of heavy metal silver ions without electroreduction steps and constructed a homogeneous electrochemical sensor for new pollutant PFOS. Part of the work by Professor Zhu Gangbing has been published as a corresponding or first author in Nature index journals (Inorg. Chem. 2024, 63, 16442-16450; Chem. Commun., 2024, 10.1039/D4CC03927K) and Zone 1 journals (Chemical Engineering Journal 497 (2024): 154512); Sensors and Actuators: B. Chemical 413 (2024) 135847； Analytica Chimica Acta 1329 (2024) 343250) and Zone 2 Journal (Microchemical Journal 197 (2024) 109875; Journal of The Electrochemical Society, 171 (2024) 01650； Microchemical Journal 197 (2024) 109839； Microchimica Acta (2024) bcb3ef-83a9-42c7-86e0-f9f32ab8c109).

Liao Diyan, Zhang Conglin, Hou Jieling, Zhou Yifan, Zhou Ruiyong, Du Anning, Xu Yuanyuan, Li Jing and other students have put in effort for these tasks.