Nanozyme-Based Sensing Platforms: Design and Applications
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Analytical Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 January 2027 | Viewed by 38
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Interests: preparation and applications of materials with enzyme-like activity; spectroscopic analysis; chromatographic analysis
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Dear Colleagues,
Nanomaterials with enzyme-like activity (nanozymes), which have the characteristics of excellent stability and low cost, can avoid some shortcomings of natural enzymes. Nanozymes are usually engineered from metals, oxides, carbon materials, metal–organic framework, or covalent organic frameworks, which may be tailored via defect engineering, heteroatom doping, and single-atom coordination to boost specificity and sensitivity. Nanozyme-based sensing platforms represent a frontier in analytical science, merging the catalytic activity of nanozymes with advanced sensing technology to address critical challenges in environmental monitoring, food safety, pharmaceutical analysis, and biomedical diagnosis. These sensing platforms can achieve high sensitivity, stability, and cost-effectiveness compared to conventional enzyme-based sensors.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to nanozyme-based sensors. We consider contributions addressing new nanomaterials and detection mechanisms for the development of sensing methods and the applications of nanozyme-based sensors in various fields, such as environmental monitoring, biomedical diagnosis, food safety, and pharmaceutical analysis.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Development of sensing methods based on various nanozymes.
- Novel nanozymes for the development of sensing methods.
- Detection mechanisms of the nanozyme-based sensors.
- Applications of nanozyme-based sensors in different fields.
- Integration of nanozyme-based sensors with portable devices.
Prof. Dr. Fengqing Yang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanozyme-based sensor
- biosensing
- environmental monitoring
- biomedical diagnosis
- pharmaceutical analysis
- food safety
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