Carbon Nanosensors for Bio-Chemical Detection

Dear Colleagues,

Carbon nanomaterials represent a new generation of materials having nanometer sizes. These nanostructures, characterized by the presence of sp²-bonded carbon atoms, can be classified based on the number of dimensions. For example, although their diameters are at least 1 nm, pristine fullerene and carbon nanoparticles can be classified as zerodimensional compounds, carbon nanotubes (single-walled carbon nanotubes, SWNT, and multi-walled carbon nanotubes, MWNT) as one-dimensional and graphene as two-dimensional. These classes of nanomaterials, including carbon nanoparticles, carbon and graphene quantum dots, graphene, graphene oxide, carbon fibers, carbon nanotubes, show exciting advantages with respect to classic single molecules, due to the combination of minuscule size and high surface area and have enormous potentiality for multipurpose uses, such as catalysis, medicine and biomedicine, and also sensing.

The target of this Special Issue is to collect the recent advances on this field (research articles and review), in particular on the detection of chemical and biological analytes having high impact on human life, including, but not limited to transition metals, organic and inorganic pollutants, chemical weapons, neurotransmitters, molecules or biomolecules related to important diseases, and metabolites.

Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Trusso Sfrazzetto
Guest Editor

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• carbon nanomaterials
• graphene
• carbon nanoparticles
• carbon dots
• nanotubes
• sensing