Recent Progress of Hydrogel Sensors and Biosensors (2nd Edition)
A special issue of Gels (ISSN 2310-2861). This special issue belongs to the section "Gel Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2026 | Viewed by 495
Special Issue Editors
2. Departamento de Química, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Interests: optical biosensing; surface functionalization; biofunctionalization; photoinduced immobilization; label-free; holography; diffraction-based sensing; photonic sensors; biograting; immunoassay; hydrogels; material synthesis
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Interests: surface functionalization; biofunctionalization; carbon nanomaterials; nanoparticle synthesis; hydrogels; material synthesis; material characterization; organic chemistry; optical biosensing; diffraction-based sensing; label-free; holography
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2. Departamento de Química, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Interests: immunochemical methods; surface chemistry; nanomaterials for bioanalysis; photonic biosensing; screening systems; bioreagents development
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are grateful to all authors, reviewers, and readers for their responses to the first edition of our Special Issue on “Recent Progress of Hydrogel Sensors and Biosensors (2nd Edition)”. You can access these articles for free via the following link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/gels/special_issues/J61NDJY6RQ
Hydrogels have attracted substantial attention over the last few decades due to their 3D hydrophilic structure, swelling in high quantities of water. They have found application in controlled release, drug delivery, immunomodulation, tissue engineering, and sensing and biosensing.
Hydrogels used for sensors and biosensors are appropriately tailored so that their physicochemical properties change following interaction with their target. Thus, stimuli, such as pressure, light, electric fields, magnetic fields, heat, the presence of small molecules and biomolecules, or pH, can be monitored by analyzing their effect on the absorbance, color, refractive index, conductivity, or rheological properties of materials, among others.
The smart design of hydrogels, their functionalization, and the format and measurement set-ups used for different analyses are necessary to deliver monitoring devices with adequate analytical performance for real applications.
This Special Issue aims to collect both original research articles and review papers on the most recent innovations in the formulation, synthesis, processing, design, and characterization of hydrogels in different formats for sensing and biosensing. Studies on wearables, point-of-care, and emerging sensing technologies based on hydrogels are greatly encouraged.
Prof. Dr. María-José Bañuls
Dr. María Isabel Lucío
Prof. Dr. Ángel Maquieira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydrogel
- sensors
- biosensors
- stimuli-responsive
- wearable
- point of care
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