State-of-the-Art Biosensors in China (2nd Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

Biosensors are analytical devices that combine a biological/synthetic molecule (e.g., nucleic acids, enzymes, and antibodies) immobilized on a transducer. The biological/synthetic molecule (i.e., biorecognition receptor) interacts with the target analyte, converting the receptor's response into a measurable signal (e.g., optical, electrochemical, and piezoelectric signals). The advancement of biosensors has recently attracted much interest from researchers worldwide due to their potential applications across diverse areas in health, medicine, agriculture, industry, defense, food safety, and environmental monitoring. These biosensors must possess characteristics including specificity, sensitivity, rapidity, affordability, portability, user-friendliness, and ease of specimen collection. Biosensors are even more facile, useful, and easier to obtain when they are integrated with new communication techniques, which make these devices more applicable to custom healthcare and environmental monitoring systems.

This Special Issue entitled “State-of-the-Art Biosensors in China (Volume II)” focuses on the most recent progress and innovations in the development of biosensors in China. Researchers from scientific fields of biology, chemistry, medicine, environment, engineering, and material sciences are invited to submit original and review articles that cover the following aspects:

• The monitoring and diagnosis of various diseases in biofluids, such as cancer biomarkers, infectious diseases, and heart-related conditions.
• The identification of pollutants and contaminants in environmental/food samples, such as pesticides, antibiotic residues, and heavy metals.
• The advancement of innovative biosensors, such as colorimetry, electrochemistry, fluorescence, luminescence, surface-enhanced resonance Raman scattering (SERS), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), nanomaterial-based, and aptamer/antibody-based sensors.
• The development of rapid and sensitive biosensing techniques in the bioanalysis and medical fields, such as microfluidic chips, single-molecule imaging, smartphone sensing, wearable devices, point-of-care systems, and machine and deep learning.

Prof. Dr. Chunyang Zhang
Prof. Dr. Nan Xiang
Guest Editors

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