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A special issue of Chemosensors (ISSN 2227-9040).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2017
Special Issue Editors
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Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. José Miguel García
Polymer Research Group, Faculty of Science, University of Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain
Website1 | Website2 | E-Mail Interests: polymers; polymer sensors; high performance polymers; polymers for advanced applications; design and synthesis of advanced polymers; monomers; monomer synthesis; chemical sensors; supramolecular chemistry |
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Guest Editor
Dr. José Antonio Reglero Ruiz
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Guest Editor
Dr. Saúl Vallejos Calzada
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development of supramolecular chemistry by Pedersen, Cram, and Lehn, in the 1960s, brought forth the growth of a new research field called chemical sensors or chemosensors. These are molecules having receptor or host units devoted to providing information about the chemical composition of its environment through selective interaction with target molecules (guest molecules). The chemical sensors are usually organic or organometallic, low-mass molecules with a number of drawbacks: They are generally water insoluble, exhibit moderate to low light and thermal stability, and tend to migrate when they are dispersed in physical supports.
In a step forward, polymers with main chain, or lateral binding sites, also called host or receptor sub-units, opened the door for cutting-edge sensing applications in solution or gas phases, i.e., the detection and quantification of cations, anions, or neutral molecules. Polymers are materials with good thermal and mechanical resistances that can be transformed into solids of any shape. Accordingly, they can be easily transformed into end materials, such as films or coatings, to produce costless sensing devices, such as “naked-eye” sensory films, or to integrate them in conventional analytical techniques to detect gases or target species in solution. Moreover, sensory polymers can be designed to be soluble in water or in organic media so as to be exploited in solution as stable and easily-recovered sensory materials.
This Special Issue on polymer-based chemical sensors is devoted to the discussion and dissemination of the latest research in this quickly-evolving field. Emphasis will be placed on the preparation and applications of organic and hybrid polymers as sensing materials for the detection of chemicals of interest in solution and in the gas phase, in civil security and in the biomedical, food, environmental, and industrial fields, etc.
Prof. Dr. José Miguel García
Dr. José Antonio Reglero Ruiz
Dr. Saúl Vallejos Calzada
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- Polymer chemosensors
- Piezoelectric sensors
- Chemomechanical sensors
- Electrochemical sensors
- Colorimetric sensors
- Fluorescence sensors
- Chemical sensor array
- Sensing of cations
- Sensing of anions
- Sensing of explosives
- Sensing of chemical warfare agents
- Sensing of biomolecules
- Sensing of pollutants
Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Review
Printing polymeric materials for electroanalytical applications
Stefano Cinti
Advances in design of selective interfaces and printed technology have mighty contributed to the expansion of the electroanalysis fame. The real advantage in electroanalytical field is the possibility to manufacture and customize a plenty of different sensing platforms, avoiding expensive equipments, skilled personnel, and economic effort. The growing development in polymer science have led to further improvements of the electroanalytical methods such as sensitivity, selectivity, reproducibility, and accuracy. This review provides an overview of the printing methods currently exploited to print polymeric materials, with an emphasis on the development of electronalytical sensors and biosensors.Journal Contact
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