Micro- and Nanosensors: Fabrication, Applications and Performance Enhancements, Third Edition

A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "E:Engineering and Technology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 October 2025 | Viewed by 483

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Interests: voltammetry; carbon nanomaterials; carbon black; carbon nanotubes; pharmaceutical analysis
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Dear Colleagues,

The development of new types of micro/nanosensors is a rapidly growing research field that is receiving increasing amounts of attention from researchers all over the world. In recent years, a strong interest in the miniaturization and integration of sensors while maintaining their high sensitivity, reliability, and selectivity has become evident. New constructions are often associated with the use of novel materials as the sensing elements, which can provide advantages such as flexibility and variety in the shape of these sensors.

This Special Issue aims to highlight the current trends in the field of micro/nanosensor design and the application of these sensors in solving analytical problems, such as the quality control analysis of food and pharmaceuticals, environmental analyses, and industry or medical applications. We cordially invite you to contribute to this Special Issue. Review articles, communications, and full-size research papers are all welcome.

I look forward to and welcome your participation in this Special Issue.

Dr. Joanna Smajdor
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Keywords

  • MEMS sensors
  • fiber optic sensors
  • resonant pressure sensor
  • electrochemical sensors
  • bioelectrochemical sensors
  • electrode modifiers
  • wearable sensors
  • plasmonic sensors
  • metasurface sensors
  • photonic crystal-based sensors

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Carbon Materials in Voltammetry: An Overview of Versatile Platforms for Antidepressant Drug Detection
by Joanna Smajdor, Katarzyna Fendrych and Anna Górska-Ratusznik
Micromachines 2025, 16(4), 423; https://doi.org/10.3390/mi16040423 - 31 Mar 2025
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This review concentrates on the application of carbon-based materials in the development and fabrication of voltammetric sensors of antidepressant drugs used in the treatment of moderate to severe depression, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and various phobias. Voltammetric techniques offer outstanding sensitivity and selectivity, [...] Read more.
This review concentrates on the application of carbon-based materials in the development and fabrication of voltammetric sensors of antidepressant drugs used in the treatment of moderate to severe depression, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and various phobias. Voltammetric techniques offer outstanding sensitivity and selectivity, accuracy, low detection limit, high reproducibility, instrumental simplicity, cost-effectiveness, and short time of direct determination of antidepressant drugs in pharmaceutical and clinical samples. Moreover, the combination of voltammetric approaches with the unique characteristics of carbon and its derivatives has led to the development of powerful electrochemical sensing tools for detecting antidepressant drugs, which are highly desirable in healthcare, environmental monitoring, and the pharmaceutical industry. In this review, carbon-based materials, such as glassy carbon and boron-doped diamond, and a wide spectrum of carbon nanoparticles, including graphene, graphene oxides, reduced graphene oxides, single-walled carbon nanotubes, and multi-walled carbon nanotubes were described in terms of the sensing performance of agomelatine, alprazolam, amitriptyline, aripiprazole, carbamazepine, citalopram, clomipramine, clozapine, clonazepam, desipramine, desvenlafaxine, doxepin, duloxetine, flunitrazepam, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, imipramine, nifedipine, olanzapine, opipramol, paroxetine, quetiapine, serotonin, sertraline, sulpiride, thioridazine, trazodone, venlafaxine, and vortioxetine. Full article
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