Table 1_The environmental footprint of point-of-care diagnostics: quantitative review and

Table 1_The environmental footprint of point-of-care diagnostics: quantitative review and a practical eco-design metric.xlsx is a 25.7 KB Excel file authored by Grégoire Le Brun and last updated on April 23, 2026. It compiles environmental indicators for biosensor materials and presents a PRISMA-based review of life-cycle assessments for diagnostic systems like lateral flow assays and PCR-based devices.

Use Cases

• Compare carbon footprints across diagnostic technologies (LFAs, instrumented devices, PCR) based on the compiled life-cycle assessments.
• Apply the Environmental Cost of Performance (ECoP) metric to evaluate performance-impact trade-offs in diagnostic design.
• Select materials with lower environmental burdens for new biosensors based on the compiled material indicators.
• Operationalize eco-design principles in development workflows using the proposed quantitative methodology.

Strengths

• Provides a quantitative, multi-scale design methodology linking materials to system-level performance.
• Introduces a specific, operational eco-design metric (Environmental Cost of Performance - ECoP).
• Compiles environmental indicators for common biosensor materials from a PRISMA-based review.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is small (25.7 KB), indicating limited scope or a summary nature.

Provenance

Source

Grégoire Le Brun via figshare

Collection Method

Compilation and PRISMA-based review of life-cycle assessments.

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04 23 11:04:32; freshness should be verified.

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