Low Carbon Materials: Paving a Sustainable Path for a Greener Future, RSC, ss.225-253, 2026
Carbon is a widely used element and is encountered at many points in daily life. Carbon-based materials, which come in many varieties such as carbon fibers, graphene, fullerene, diamond, and carbon nanotubes, are widely used in cement, fuel products, nanomaterials, as well as in many electrochemical biomedical applications and sensor fields. While the widespread use of carbon materials provides various advantages, it also brings with it some problems. The damage to the environment is the most significant among these. In recent years, there has been a surge in the acceptance of low-carbon materials as a means of reducing global environmental degradation. Low-carbon materials are extremely important materials to use for goals such as sustainable development, preventing climate change, and reducing the use of environmental polluting agents. Low-carbon materials should be preferred in sensor applications that allow fast, economical, repeatable analyses and are very easy to carry and use. In this sense, it can be said that one of the most common sensors is electrochemical biomedical sensors, due to factors such as ease of use and fast results, and it is important to examine the uses of low-carbon materials in this field and the studies carried out within the scope of the subject. In this chapter, the place of low-carbon materials in sensor studies and their use in electrochemical biomedical sensor studies are described.