Advanced Metal–Organic Frameworks: Innovations in Sensing and Detection Technologies
A special issue of Chemosensors (ISSN 2227-9040). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials for Chemical Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 11 April 2026
Special Issue Editor
Interests: the application of conductive metal–organic frameworks in wearable sweat sensors and humidity-sensitive sensors and gas-sensitive sensors; design, synthesis and application research of bio-functional conductive MOFs and COFs
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) have revolutionized sensing technologies due to their extraordinary structural tunability, ultrahigh porosity, and rich host–guest chemistry. Their unique ability to tailor pore size, surface functionality, and framework dynamics enables highly selective and sensitive interactions with diverse analytes. This Special Issue seeks cutting-edge research showcasing MOFs as next-generation sensing platforms for environmental monitoring, healthcare diagnostics, industrial safety, and security applications.
We invite original research and review articles covering, but not limited to:
- Design and Synthesis: Novel MOFs/derivatives (e.g., composites, membranes, gels) optimized for sensing.
- Sensing Mechanisms: Luminescence, electrochemical, colorimetric, resistive, mass-sensitive (QCM, SAW), and optical sensing.
- Target Analytes: Gases, biomolecules, ions, explosives, humidity, VOCs, and pathogens.
- Performance Enhancement: Strategies for improving sensitivity, selectivity, stability, response time, and regenerability.
- Device Integration: Fabrication of MOF-based sensors，such as wearable, point-of-care, electronic noses, and so on.
- Advanced Characterization: In situ/operando studies elucidating sensing mechanisms.
- Theoretical Modeling: Simulations guiding MOF design and analyte interaction prediction.
We welcome your innovative contributions to unlock the full potential of MOFs in transformative sensing applications!
Dr. Jingjuan Liu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metal–organic frameworks (MOFs)
- sensing applications
- structural tunability
- host-guest chemistry
- sensing mechanisms
- selective sensing
- sensitive detection
- environmental monitoring
- healthcare diagnostics
- wearable sensors
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