Special Issue "Nanophotonic Approaches to Biosensing and Bioimaging Applications"

A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical and Photonic Biosensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2023 | Viewed by 1152

Special Issue Editors

Academy for Engineering and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Interests: nanophotonics; optical sensors; biomedical optical imaging
National Innovation Center for Advanced Medical Devices, Shenzhen, China
Interests: micro/nano-photonics; microfluidics; biosensing; bioimaging

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Nanophotonics offers unprecedented potential in designing and engineering novel optical devices for biosensing and bioimaging with its extraordinary capability of controlling electromagnetic waves with sub-wavelength scale photonic structures. It enables enhanced capabilities and new functionalities for sensing chemical and physical variations with extraordinary sensing performance beyond the current limit, distinguishing multiple elements with the signal previously hidden, achieving the measurements with exceptional scale and speed, as well as offering novel bioimaging mechanisms with enriched contrasts and improved resolution. Advanced micro/nano manufacturing technologies further offer more options for materials, extended functionality, and reduced per-unit costs to achieve customized nanophotonic devices for abundant convenient applications in numerous vital areas, including healthcare, pharmaceutics, food safety, environmental monitoring, security, etc. We welcome all types of submissions, including original research papers, reviews, perspectives, methods, or technical reports, that will help enrich the field for the existing community as well as for newcomers.

Prof. Dr. Biqin Dong
Dr. Hao Li
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • nanophotonics
  • biosensing
  • bioimaging
  • optical biomaterial
  • optical nanomaterial
  • micro-/nanofabrication

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Label-Free Bound-States-in-the-Continuum Biosensors
Biosensors 2022, 12(12), 1120; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios12121120 - 02 Dec 2022
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Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted considerable attentions for biological and chemical sensing due to their infinite quality (Q)-factors in theory. Such high-Q devices with enhanced light-matter interaction ability are very sensitive to the local refractive index changes, [...] Read more.
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted considerable attentions for biological and chemical sensing due to their infinite quality (Q)-factors in theory. Such high-Q devices with enhanced light-matter interaction ability are very sensitive to the local refractive index changes, opening a new horizon for advanced biosensing. In this review, we focus on the latest developments of label-free optical biosensors governed by BICs. These BICs biosensors are summarized from the perspective of constituent materials (i.e., dielectric, metal, and hybrid) and structures (i.e., grating, metasurfaces, and photonic crystals). Finally, the current challenges are discussed and an outlook is also presented for BICs inspired biosensors. Full article
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