Sensors

Sensors represent an expanding segment of analytical chemistry and have become indispensable tools in the research field, offering sensitive, selective, and often portable platforms for chemical and biochemical analysis. Innovations in nanomaterials engineering and nanotechnology, the design of synthetic receptors, and advances in microfabrication techniques have led to remarkable enhancements in sensor performance.

The scope of the section encompasses, but is not restricted to, the following areas:

• Novel chemical sensing and biosensing concepts, mechanisms and detection principles.
• Development and fabrication of chemical sensors and biosensors.
• Lab-on-a-chip, Micro-Total Analysis Systems (µTAS) and other biochips and microarray systems (for instance, electronic noses and electronic tongues).
• Single-molecule sensors.
• Novel materials development for transducers and recognition elements.
• Applications of chemical and biosensors in environmental monitoring, medical diagnostics, food safety and quality control, pharmaceutical analysis and industrial quality control.