How Can Chemometrics Support the Development of Point of Need Devices?

The necessity to establish novel solutions for decentralized monitoring is attracting attention in all fields of analytical chemistry, i.e., clinical, pharmaceutical, environmental, agri-food. research around the terms “point-of-need”, “point-of-care”, “lab-on-chip”, “biosensor”, “microfluidics”, etc. is/has been always aimed at possibility produce easy-to-use and fast-response devices be used by nonspecialists. However, routes optimal device might time-consuming costly. In this Feature, we would like highlight role chemometric-based approaches that are useful conceptualization, production, data analysis developing reliable portable also decrease amount experiments (thus, costs) same time. Readers will provided a concise overview regarding most employed chemometric tools target identification, design experiments, analysis, digitalization results applied development diverse platforms. This Feature provides tutorial perspective major methods applications have currently developed. particular, presence informative table assists chemists utilizing right chemometrics-based tool depending on architectures transduction.