Recent Progress in Biosensors for Clinical Diagnostics, Food Quality Control, and Environmental Monitoring
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "B1: Biosensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2026 | Viewed by 13
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce a Special Issue of Micromachines on “Recent Progress in Biosensors for Clinical Diagnostics, Food Quality Control, and Environmental Monitoring.”
In recent years, electrochemical biosensors have advanced rapidly, demonstrating high sensitivity and selectivity, rapid and accurate analysis, cost-effectiveness, and integration with machine learning, microfluidics, and lab-on-a-chip systems. They have found widespread application in diverse fields, including clinical diagnostics, environmental monitoring, food quality control, and agriculture. The field of electrochemical biosensors is inherently multidisciplinary, drawing from chemistry, biology, physics, materials science, engineering, nanotechnology, electronics, and data science.
Current research efforts focus on expanding the capabilities of electrochemical biosensors for detecting new important analytes while optimizing their analytical performance (selectivity, sensitivity, etc.). Progress is being driven by the use of novel nanomaterials, innovative biosensing elements, advanced immobilization strategies, and improved transducer and measurement system design.
This Special Issue aims to highlight cutting-edge developments in electrochemical biosensors, with particular focus on the following topics:
- Novel electrode materials for biosensors;
- Nanomaterials for improved biosensor performance;
- New immobilization techniques;
- Improved biorecognition elements (enzymes, aptamers, antibodies, nucleic acids, cells, etc.) and hybrid platforms;
- Miniaturization, microfluidics, automation;
- Lab-on-chip and wearable biosensing devices;
- Biosensor applications in biomedical diagnostics, food quality control, agriculture, and environmental monitoring;
- Challenges and perspectives in the transition of electrochemical biosensors from laboratory prototypes to real-life applications.
Dr. Viktoriya Pyeshkova
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- electrochemical biosensors
- nanostructured materials
- biosensor systems
- point-of-care diagnostics
- wearable and implantable biosensors
- microfluidics and lab-on-chip devices
- machine learning in biosensing
- biosensor applications in healthcare, food safety, and environmental monitoring
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