Recent Advances in Optical Chemo- and Biosensors

Dear Colleagues,

Optical sensors have many advantages over other types of sensors as they can exploit many different sensing modalities such as refractive index, absorption, scattering, interference, and luminescence. They can also be non-invasive and remotely interrogated. Since the commercialization of surface plasmon resonance sensors in 1990, the field of optical sensors has expanded significantly with new types of sensors, new materials, and new applications being developed at a rapid pace. Advances in optoelectronics have also resulted in a wide variety of light sources and detectors that can be applied to chemo- and biosensors. This Special Issue covers all types of optical sensors and their applications and is in collaboration with XVI EUROPT(R)ODE 2024, but any article by other scholars that fits the theme of this Special Issue will also be accepted.

Topics may include:

• Molecular probes;
• Wearable or implantable optical sensors;
• Luminescent and FRET sensors;
• Environmental and food analysis;
• Biomedical applications;
• Biophotonics;
• Plasmonics;
• Label-free optical sensors;
• Instrumentation and 3D-printed devices;
• Single-molecule sensing;
• Optical sensors for disease surveillance.

Dr. Ruchi Gupta
Dr. Nicholas J. Goddard
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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• optical sensors
• optical biosensors
• molecular probes
• plasmonics
• wearable sensors