Biomimetic Sensors and Their Applications

Dear Colleagues,

We are very pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue on biomimetic sensors, which are emerging research subjects with various applications: from the biomedical field (from early diagnosis to therapy monitoring) to food quality control and forensic and environmental analyses.

The field of biomimetic sensors refers to all sensors that use biomimetic elements or biomimetic approaches. The use of aptamers (synthetic nucleic acids or peptides ligands that bind to a specific target) or molecularly imprinted polymers (a class of engineered materials having the role of artificial receptors with a predetermined selectivity for a given target analyte) in biosensors design has successfully replaced natural bioelements, which have limitations and drawbacks. Both aptamers and molecularly imprinted polymers could also be defined as synthetic receptors that mimic natural recognized entities.

Biomimetic means biologically inspired; therefore, focusing on bioinspired materials or processes that mimic biological functions and processes, from the human senses to more complicated pathways, this Special Issue is addressed to a wide audience: electrochemists, physicists, biologists, immunologists, materials specialists, etc.

This Special Issue plans not only to provide an overview on recent achievements but also to stimulate ideas about the current and future research in the biomimetic sensors field. Both original papers and reviews are welcome.

Prof. Dr. Cecilia Cristea
Dr. Pooyan Makvandi
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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