Chemical Sensors for Bio-Medical and Environmental Applications, 3rd Edition

A Special Issue of Chemosensors (ISSN 2227-9040) belonging to the section "Applied Chemical Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 895

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Dear Colleagues,

Air quality, water pollution, and the health of the population are major factors that pose significant challenges to our modern society. The performance of appropriate monitoring is essential to the achievement of sustainable growth and, thereby, the maintenance of a healthy society. In recent years, environmental monitoring and early medical diagnosis have been transformed into the intelligent monitoring of crucial parameters, owing to advances in the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and the development of modern sensors.

Our previous Special Issues, “Chemical Sensors for Bio-Medical and Environmental Applications” and “Chemical Sensors for Bio-Medical and Environmental Applications, 2nd Edition”, have successfully published 11 papers and 13 papers, respectively. The 3rd edition of this Special Issue will provide a forum that is dedicated to recent research in the field of smart (bio)chemical sensors for environmental and medical applications. Both review articles and original research papers that address the following topics are welcome:

  • Bio-medical sensors;
  • Sensors for diagnosis;
  • Sensors for environmental monitoring;
  • Air pollution sensors (indoor and outdoor);
  • Volatile organic compound (VOC) sensors;
  • NO2 sensors;
  • Water pollution sensors;
  • Pesticide and persistent organic pollutant sensors;
  • Heavy metal sensors.

Dr. Driss Lahem
Dr. Marc Debliquy
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Keywords

  • bio-medical sensors
  • sensors for diagnosis
  • sensors for environmental monitoring
  • air pollution sensors (indoor and outdoor)
  • volatile organic compound (VOC) sensors
  • NO2 sensors
  • water pollution sensors
  • pesticide and persistent organic pollutant sensors
  • heavy metal sensors

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Aptamer/Nanozyme Chemical Sensors for On-Site Glyphosate Determination in Agricultural Runoff: Classification, Operating Principles, and Analytical Applicability
by Meiqing Jin, Qingwei Zhou and Li Fu
Chemosensors 2026, 14(8), 170; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors14080170 - 23 Jul 2026
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This critical perspective review first classifies glyphosate-sensing platforms and then evaluates their analytical applicability to agricultural runoff. Platforms are divided at the primary level into optical and electrochemical transduction, because these families measure different physical signals and have different sources of matrix interference. [...] Read more.
This critical perspective review first classifies glyphosate-sensing platforms and then evaluates their analytical applicability to agricultural runoff. Platforms are divided at the primary level into optical and electrochemical transduction, because these families measure different physical signals and have different sources of matrix interference. They are then grouped by the process that produces selectivity or signal change: direct interaction or metal coordination, affinity recognition by aptamers, antibodies, or molecularly imprinted polymers, catalytic modulation by enzymes or nanozymes, and separation or preconcentration before detection. This hierarchy distinguishes recognition chemistry from transduction method and device configuration. The review next defines four intended analytical applications—trace surveillance, runoff event screening, spill triage, and laboratory-adjacent confirmation—and compares them in terms of matrix, target concentration range, sample preparation, reporting metrics, and quality control requirements. Glyphosate occurs in dissolved and particle-associated forms, degrades mainly to AMPA, and coexists with phosphate, glufosinate, divalent cations, natural organic matter, and suspended sediment. Consequently, the lowest reported LOD is rarely the sole criterion for selecting a method. Matrix-matched calibration, spike recovery, selectivity, response time, storage stability, reader requirements, and invalid result rules determine whether an assay is suitable for a specified analytical application. The most defensible near-term approach combines matrix-specific sample preparation, platform-specific controls, and LC-MS/MS confirmation when results are regulatory, contested, or close to a decision threshold. Full article
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