Low-Cost Chemo/Bio-Sensors Based on Nanomaterials
A special issue of Chemosensors (ISSN 2227-9040). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials for Chemical Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2024) | Viewed by 32382
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Interests: photoluminescence; persistent luminescence; nanomaterials; wide bandgap semiconductors; sensing; photocatalysis
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Dear Colleagues,
In light of the serious health and climate crisis that the world has been facing, there is a remarkable rise in global awareness regarding the need for the continuous monitoring of disease indicators in our body, as well as the surrounding environment for viruses, bacteria, pollutant antibiotics, greenhouse gases, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and so on. Hence, the field of sensing is a very active topic with great potential for further development, as sensors are indispensable for intelligent detection systems to assess chemical and biological information in air quality and emission control, water bodies monitoring, military and public security, food safety, and medical diagnosis. It is therefore imperative to develop low-cost and sustainable solutions for large-scale monitoring with high reliability, sensitivity, and selectivity. Reducing the production and operation cost of current state-of-the-art devices will boost their dissemination to the general population worldwide, providing crucial information to take preventive measures and swift mitigation actions.
In this context, nanomaterials constitute an auspicious platform for the fabrication of device-grade chemo/bio-sensors due to the unique properties that they offer in comparison to their bulk counterparts, with the additional benefit of promoting higher sensitivity and faster detection of multiple analytes. Engineering new functional nanomaterials that can be produced by low-cost techniques and that enable the precise control of electronic and structural properties is mandatory to optimize the performance of such devices, and to retrieve the required knowledge concerning the properties of these nanomaterials, as they dictate their sensing characteristics. Therefore, in this Special Issue we welcome papers focused on the production of low-cost and sustainable nanomaterials—in particular, semiconductors, metal oxides, carbon-based materials and nanocomposites, as well as their characterization and application in chemosensing and biosensing devices.
Dr. Joana Rodrigues
Dr. Nuno Santos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Metal oxides
- Semiconductors
- Carbon-based materials
- Nanoparticles
- Nanocomposites
- New functional materials
- Sustainable materials
- Biosensors
- Gas sensors
- Chemical sensors
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