Point-of-Care Testing Using Biochemical Sensors for Health and Safety
A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensors and Healthcare".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025
Special Issue Editors
2. Zhengzhou Research Institute, Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhengzhou 450000, China
Interests: biosensors; point-of-care tests; immunoassays; serodiagnostics; gold nanomaterials; fluorescent nanomaterials; metal–organic frameworks; hydrogel film sensors
Interests: food safety detection; immunoassay; biosensor; nanomaterials; in vitro diagnostic
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biochemical sensors used for point-of-care testing (POCT) have the excellent advantages of convenience, high efficiency, and a low cost for onsite detection, while being easy to operate and enabling large-scale screening and at-home care. As such, they have been used in ensuring food/public safety, epidemic surveillance, disease diagnosis/prognosis monitoring, etc. Coupling POCT techniques, which use a naked-eye readable signal or miniaturized sensing device, with smartphone-based intelligent detections is a promising area of research and one of the most important research fields currently under development. These systems offer a primary diagnosis without a time delay and are also perfectly suitable for long-term monitoring without the need for making appointments with doctors or experts.
This Special Issue aims to present research articles and reviews/mini-reviews detailing the recent advances in POCT sensing systems. Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Lateral flow assays/microfluidic assays/wearable sensors, etc;
- Molecular/nanomaterial-based colorimetric/fluorescent/spectrometric/electrochemical assays;
- POCT sensors for disease biomarkers/drugs/toxics/antibiotics/pathogens;
- Smartphone-based automatic and intelligent assays;
- Integrated multiplex assays.
Dr. Jiangjiang Zhang
Prof. Dr. Xiaolin Huang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biochemical sensors
- point-of-care tests
- disease biomarker detections
- molecular diagnosis
- public/food safety
- immunoassays
- lateral flow assays
- microfluidics
- wearable sensors
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