Progress of Nanomaterials for Colorimetric Sensing
A special issue of Chemosensors (ISSN 2227-9040). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials for Chemical Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 29365
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Interests: chemical and biological sensors; optical sensors; noble metal nanomaterials; catalysis; plasmonics; microfluidics; disease diagnosis; environmental monitoring
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Interests: analytical chemistry; colorimetric biosensors; bioremediation; atomic spectrometry
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Interests: fluorescence; FLIM; photochemistry; photobiology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Colorimetric sensors have been recognized as one of the most widely used analytical techniques for applications in many fields (e.g., disease diagnosis, environmental monitoring, and food safety analysis) owing to their important advantages, e.g., simplicity, convenience, low cost, practicality, and visual detection. Unfortunately, most of them still suffer from low sensitivity, low visual resolution, low selectivity, etc. To address these issues, recent research has looked to develop innovative signal transduction technologies by coupling with various advanced nanomaterials and controlling their performances in a very predictable manner to satisfy the specific requirements of colorimetric sensing. Specifically, nanomaterials have lots of unique features that make them very attractive for colorimetric sensing. For example, they possess various excellent physicochemical properties, including optical, electronic, magnetic, and catalytic activties. They can be easily functionalized through chemical modification. They can be readily prepared with good uniformities in size, shape, elemental composition, and surface structure.
The aim of this Special Issue is therefore to highlight enhanced colorimetric sensing techniques using advanced nanomaterials. Topics in this Issue include but are not limited to the following:
- Design of novel colorimetric sensors with enhanced performance using nanomaterials;
- New sensing principles for nanomaterial-based colorimetric sensors;
- Emerging applications of nanomaterial-based colorimetric sensors;
- Applications of innovative and advanced nanomaterials in colorimetric sensing;
- Design, synthesis, and characterization of novel nanomaterials with new properties that have promising potentials in colorimetric sensing.
Both review and research articles will be considered.
Dr. Zhuangqiang Gao
Dr. Philip Gardiner
Dr. Luis Crovetto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Colorimetric sensing
- Chemical and biological sensors
- Nanomaterials
- Signal transduction
- Catalysis
- Plasmonics
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