Gas Biosensors and Their Applications
A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensor and Bioelectronic Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2027 | Viewed by 82
Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Gas biosensors represent a major breakthrough in detection technologies, integrating biological systems (e.g., biomolecules, biorecognition mechanisms, and bioinspired structural principles) with advanced transduction platforms. These devices provide transformative capabilities for disease diagnosis, environmental monitoring, and industrial safety. Their applications span multiple critical domains, including: healthcare and breath-based diagnostics (e.g., noninvasive disease screening, wearable monitoring); environmental and air quality monitoring (e.g., greenhouse gas detection, pollution source tracing); food safety and agriculture (e.g., freshness assessment of meat and produce, livestock environment monitoring, composting and waste treatment); public safety (e.g., detection of illicit drugs, precursor chemicals, and explosives); and smart homes and residential security (e.g., indoor air quality management, proactive gas leak detection).
Despite substantial progress, significant challenges remain in achieving reliable deployment of portable and clinically viable devices. These include the following:
- Designing sensors capable of stable, highly selective, and trace-level detection of target gases;
- Enabling low-cost, large-scale manufacturing of disposable sensing modules;
- Supporting operation in complex real-world scenarios and facilitating commercial scalability.
This Special Issue, “Gas Biosensors and Their Applications,” aims to solicit original research that advances the following areas:
- Novel biosensing architectures (e.g., bioinspired structural designs, integration with advanced nanomaterials, microfluidic systems, and sensing–memory–computing integration)
- Emerging sensing mechanisms and principles (e.g., development of sensors based on new phenomena, techniques, and strategies; elucidation of biochemical interactions between gases and sensing interfaces; fundamental analysis of gas-induced optical, electrical, magnetic, and mechanical signal transduction; and incorporation of artificial intelligence)
- Performance breakthroughs (e.g., improvements in sensitivity, stability, selectivity, limit of detection, and reduction of cross-sensitivity)
- Applications and translation (e.g., validation in complex clinical, environmental, and industrial settings, as well as scalable manufacturing strategies toward commercialization)
We invite submissions that contribute to advancing gas biosensing technologies, expanding their real-world deployment and commercial translation, and addressing the growing demand for olfactory data in intelligent systems in the information age.
Dr. Hongmin Zhu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- gas biosensor
- gas sensor
- artificial olfaction
- electronic nose
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