Recent Progress in Functional Polymers for Biosensors
A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensor Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 4642
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biopolymers; biosensors; electrochemical sensors; optical sensors; micro-total analysis; lab-on-a-chip; polymeric hydrogels; molecularly imprinted polymers
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Dear Colleagues,
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. Biosensing is rapidly developing in terms of high sensitivity, miniaturization, and on-site deployment for instant and continuous monitoring. In biomedical engineering, a biosensor often needs to be implantable and compatible with the tissue environment and its architecture. For environmental engineering, biodegradable and environmentally benign structures are desirable. This requires the employment of functional biopolymers not only for structural design, but also as a functional component in biosensor assemblies, which entails receptor elements for the recognition of analyte and transducer elements for conversion into an electrical signal. There has been immense progress in systems integrating microfluidics with optics or electrochemical methods, creating total analysis systems or lab-on-a-chip systems. Herein, functional polymers owe their usage to the flexibility of properties, their general inert nature, biocompatibility, ease of synthesis and processing, as well as cost. From conductive polymers and the electrochemical sensors of polymeric hydrogels to the use of polydimethylsiloxane in microfluidics, functional polymers owe their diverse properties to the rapid advancement in sensor applications spanning a wide range of structures. The ease of anchoring functional molecules for the detection of polymers to their applications in molecularly imprinted polymeric structures makes functional polymers excellent platforms for biosensing.
Dr. Baishali Kanjilal
Prof. Dr. Subrata Saha
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biopolymers
- biosensors
- electrochemical sensors
- optical sensors
- micro-total analysis
- lab-on-a-chip
- polymeric hydrogels
- molecularly imprinted polymers
