Sensors and Analytical Techniques in Biochemistry

Dear Colleagues,

Nanomaterial-based sensors have attracted large interest in multitudinous interdisciplinary applications because of their simplicity, practicability, low cost, robustness, high sensitivity, and selectivity. To date, various highly sensitive sensing platforms in the fields of disease diagnosis, cell communication, food, and environmental analysis have been developed based on fascinating nanomaterials. However, most of the current sensing technologies still face intrinsic challenges due to the lack of high-quality on-demand nanomaterials, high sensitivity and inexpensive sensing devices, which seriously impedes their practical applications in high-sensitivity, high-selectivity, and high-throughput sensing of the targets in vitro and in vivo. To address these challenges, many innovative sensing technologies have been recently developed, such as smartphone-based colorimetric/fluorescence/electrochemical/chemiluminescence/electrochemiluminescence analysis, and photothermal immunoassay combined with fluorescence and/or other readout modes such as the dual-or multimodal sensing platforms, etc. Therefore, the development of nanomaterial-based sensors represents considerable progress in analytical chemistry and diagnostics.

The objective of this Special Issue is to collect the latest and innovative advances regarding the development of nanomaterial-based sensors. The editors welcome original research, mini-review and review articles, and perspectives with a focus on sensors for biochemical/pharmaceutical/food/environmental analysis. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• The synthesis of novel nanomaterials for sensing;
• The construction of sensors based on diverse principles;
• Development of miniaturized sensors;
• Colorimetric/fluorescence/electrochemical/chemiluminescence/electrochemiluminescence sensors;
• Smartphone/localized surface plasmon resonance/surface-enhanced Raman scattering-based sensors.

Prof. Dr. Ruilin Liu
Dr. Huiping Sun
Prof. Dr. Chunsheng Wu
Guest Editors

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