Optical and Electrical Nanostructured Sensors for Biochemical, Food and Environmental Applications
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 (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 16062
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanophotonics; plasmonics; surface enhanced spectroscopy; optical biosensors; lab-on-fiber and lab-on-chip devices; superconducting devices; nanofabrication
Interests: nanotechnology; optical fiber sensors; lab-on-fiber device; biosensors; optoelecronics; nanophotonics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The aim of this Special Issue is to create a short collection of papers on the specific topic of optical and electrical nanostructured sensors. Thanks to the possibility of nanostructuring materials, we can make sensors and devices compact, with reduced dimensionality and above all with new functionalities. Nanostructuring enhances the characteristics of sensors, such as sensitivity, resolution, response speed, and much more. The progress of micro and nanotechnologies has permitted the realization of entirely new platforms such as Lab-on-Chip and Lab-on-Fiber, which represent miniaturized laboratories on planar substrates or even on optical fibers, which can be employed in real scenarios. These innovative sensors have outclassed traditional sensors in almost all fields of application. In this Special Issue, we would like to focus on biomedical, food, and environmental detection and monitoring. This Special Issue addresses and focuses on the recent advances of these sensors in terms of their design and fabrication strategies but also the performance achieved in real scenarios. We are glad to receive theoretical and experimental works in the form of original articles or review papers. The non-exhaustive list of potential topics includes:
- Optical and electrical sensors;
- Fabrication methods for realizing sensing devices;
- Theoretical approaches for innovative sensors;
- Advanced functional systems for biochemical, food, and environmental sensing applications.
We look forward to your contribution to this Special Issue.
Dr. Emanuela Esposito
Dr. Alessio Crescitelli
Dr. Valentina Di Meo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biosensing
- electrical sensors
- optical sensors
- lab-on-fiber
- lab-on-chip
- food safety
- biochemical detection
- environmental monitoring and safety
- micro and nanostructured transducers
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