Smartphone-Based Biosensors and Diagnostics
A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensor and Bioelectronic Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2021) | Viewed by 7091
Special Issue Editors
Interests: imaging and sensing devices; point-of-care diagnostics; lab on a chip; nanoscience and nanoengineering; global health
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Dear Colleagues,
Over the past few decades, smartphone-based imaging and sensing platforms have emerged as promising alternatives for health monitoring and medical diagnostics, offering practical features such as portability and cost-effectiveness, particularly in regions with limited access to healthcare facilities. Many of these applications leverage the ever-increasing penetration of smartphones in our life and have significantly improved built-in modules of smartphones, such as the processor chip, complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor, and wireless connectivity. With the help of these embedded functions, smartphones have been coupled with various add-ons such as optical lenses and filters to bring a wide range of detection modalities, such as optical, electrochemical, and magnetic sensing, to the field. Images and videos captured by smartphone microscopy devices can be readily processed by custom developed smartphone applications for on-site bioanalysis.
In this Special Issue, we invite you to contribute original research articles and reviews on any aspects related to smartphone-based point-of-care diagnostics, including but not limited to device and assay development, time-dependent monitoring of health matrices, diagnosis of human diseases such as infectious diseases and cancer, as well as the detection of health-related threats in food or environmental samples.
Dr. Qingshan Wei
Dr. Yan Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smartphone
- health monitoring
- point-of-care diagnostics
- imaging
- sensing
- telemedicine
- global health
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