Special Issue in Honor of Professor Bansi D. Malhotra—From Nanosystems to a Biosensing Prototype for an Efficient Diagnostic
A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Nano- and Micro-Technologies in Biosensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 62056
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Interests: functional materials; polymers; sensors; biosensors; nanomedicine drug delivery systems
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Interests: nanosensor–biosensor; microfluidic; nano-biointeraction; diagnosis
Interests: electrochemical and fluorescence-based biosensor diagnostics; biomarker detection; nanomaterials
Interests: smart materials; zinc oxide tetrapods; biomaterials; nanocatalysis; green 3D nanotechnology
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Interests: biosensors; bioengineering; nanomaterials; nano-carriers; diagnostics; therapy; imaging; nanoparticles and nano-energy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recently, the success of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)-assisted miniaturized biomedical electronics has emerged as a potential analytical tool to manage a disease. As a recent example, diagnostics of viral infectious diseases such as COVID-19 infection diagnostics seems manageable due to the collective approach of artificial intelligence (AI for predictive analysis), IoMT, rapid testing systems, performance at point of care (POC), bioinformatics sharing along with rapid analytics, and timely therapy decision. An optimized combination of nano-enabled biosensing, POC testing, support of AI, and testing interfaced with IoMT have emerged and are very useful not for efficient diagnostics but also for making disease management possible at personalized level. In addition to the desired and controlled performance, these systems need significant improvement in terms of 1) developing a sensing prototype based on smart optoelectric nanosystems to achieve high sensitivity and low detection limit, and selectivity, 2) selecting a real sample source, which requires accurate diagnostics without interferents and loss in order to validate the sensor for clinical application in a scaled up setting.
Keeping the above into consideration, and with the aim of an intelligent approach toward a better health, this Special Issue will honor Prof. B.D. Malhotra, PhD, FNA, FNASc, to acknowledge his contribution in the field of Biosensors. Prof. Malhotra (Professor and Ex-Head, Department of Biotechnology, Delhi Technological University, India, who also served as Senior Scientist and founder of the Biomedical Instrumentation Section at National Physical Laboratory, India, and) is well known as the father of biosensors in India and a leading, accomplished scientist at the international level.
This Special Issue will be focused on collecting original research and comprehensive review articles based on the following topics:
- Biosensors for metabolite diagnostics;
- Biosensors for agro-food safety and quality assessment;
- Biosensors for cancer diagnostics;
- Biosensors for infectious disease management;
- Lab-on-a-chip supported biosensing systems;
- Microfluidic devices for efficient biosensing;
- Point-of-care biosensing for disease management;
- Efficient biosensing for brain functional assessment;
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) for intelligent healthcare;
- Aspects of 3D and green technology for efficient biosensing.
Prof. B.D. Malhotra, Ph.D., FNA, FNASc
Dr. B.D. Malhotra received his PhD from the University of Delhi, Delhi, in 1980. He has published 330 papers in refereed international journals (Citations: 23570 -index: 83), has filed 11 patents (in India and overseas), and has co-authored a textbook on Nanomaterials for Biosensors: Fundamentals and Applications and Biosensors: Fundamentals and Applications. He is the recipient of the National Research Development Corporation Award 2005 for the invention of a ‘Blood Glucose Biochemical Analyzer’ and is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, the National Academy of Sciences, India, and an Academician of the Asia Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM). His current research activities include biosensors, point-of-care diagnostics, nano-biomaterials, biofuel cells, ordered molecular assemblies, conducting polymers, Langmuir–Blodgett films, self-assembled monolayers, advanced functionalized nanosystems, hybrid nanosystems, nano-biotechnology, biomedical engineering, and biomolecular electronics.
Since 1994, he has explored functional materials for biosensing applications. His efforts initiated biosensing research in India, and as a result, this field is growing rapidly nationwide. His research is multidisciplinary and focuses on detecting targeted biomarkers not only in a physiological range but at a very low level as well. Such systems are emerging as efficient analytical tools to manage disease progression, therapy decisions, and therapy assessment at POC applications. Such approaches are of tunable performance and can be optimized for diagnostics in personalized healthcare settings if supported by artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). Dr Malhotra is currently a DST-SERB (Govt. of India) Distinguished Fellow and an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Biotechnology, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India.
He is a phenomenal mentor and supervisor and can be contacted via e-mail at [email protected] or [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Ajeet Kaushik
Dr. Pratima Solanki
Dr. Raju Khan
Prof. Dr. Yogendra Kumar Mishra
Dr. Sonu Gandhi
Guest Editors
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