Environmental Footprint of Point-of-Care Diagnostics with Eco-Design Metric

A quantitative review compiled by Grégoire Le Brun and uploaded to figshare on 2026-04-23. It proposes a multi-scale design methodology and introduces the Environmental Cost of Performance (ECoP) metric. The dataset likely contains compiled environmental indicators for biosensor materials and results from a PRISMA-based review of life-cycle assessments.

Use Cases

• Compare carbon footprints across lateral flow assays, instrumented devices, and PCR-based systems based on the compiled life-cycle assessment review.
• Apply the Environmental Cost of Performance (ECoP) metric to arbitrate between design options based on the described sensitivity-impact trade-off.
• Reference environmental indicators for common biosensor materials during materials selection based on the compiled data.
• Benchmark new point-of-care diagnostic designs against existing environmental footprints based on the quantitative review.

Strengths

• Introduces a novel, simplified eco-design metric (Environmental Cost of Performance) for practical application.
• Compiles environmental indicators for materials and conducts a PRISMA-based review, suggesting a structured methodology.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for broad reuse and adaptation.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The 461.4 KB file size indicates a limited scope, likely containing summary or review data rather than extensive raw measurements.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Grégoire Le Brun.

Collection Method

Compilation of environmental indicators and a PRISMA-based review of life-cycle assessments.

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-23 11:04:33; freshness should be verified.

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