Polymer-Based Biosensors: Innovations, Applications and Device Integration

Dear Colleagues,

Functional polymers owe their wide vistas of usage to the tailorability of properties, their inert nature, and biocompatibility. Polymers are also easy to synthesize and cost effective. Thus, they have found their way into a wide variety of sensors to actuators as well as in energy storage. The easy anchoring of functional groups on polymers to structuring complex molecularly imprinted polymeric structures makes functional polymers excellent platforms for biosensing. Their easy incorporation of electrically responsive elements makes them excellent candidates for bioactuators. The biocompatibility of a wide variety of polymers makes their integration into implantable devices an imperative and important development in health monitoring with rapid advancements in synthetic structures, device designs, and advanced processing techniques. There has been immense progress in systems integrating microfluidics with optics or electrochemical methods, creating total analysis systems or lab-on-a-chip systems. The study of biomedical engineering and biotechnology is rapidly advancing in fields, ranging from medical diagnostics to environmental remediation, important aspects of which are analyte detection, sensing, and quantification. Bioimplantable devices with integrated sensis, actuation, and energy storage capabilities—all based on polymers—is rapidly developing in terms of high sensitivity, miniaturization, and on-site deployment for instant and continuous monitoring. This Special Issue focuses on the application and usage of polymers in biosensing, bioactuators, biocompatible energy storage applications and integrated bio implantable devices.

Dr. Baishali Kanjilal
Guest Editor

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