Developing a low-cost strategy to detect pesticides in food is the goal of the team led by Dr. Rafael Melo Freire, thanks to funding obtained in the Fondecyt Initiation 2020 Project Competition.
The extensive use of pesticides in Chilean agriculture has become a highly relevant national problem, so it would be desirable to monitor pesticides in food, a process that can be made possible thanks to the development of the proposed new detection method: carbon quantum dots.
