Applications of Fluorescent Sensors in Food and Environment

Dear Colleagues,

Nowadays, environmental and food safety are deeply interconnected and represent topics of wide interest because of pollution and global climate change caused by anthropogenic activity. In particular, industrial production, transport, intensive agriculture, waste production, chemical processes, etc., involve the release of organic and inorganic pollutants that compromise the healthiness of the four spheres of the ecosystem, the "lithosphere" (land), "hydrosphere" (water), "biosphere" (living things), and "atmosphere" (air), with negative impacts on the quality and genuineness of food. Flourescent sensors play a pivotal role in the prevention of environmental/food pollution and food waste because they are versatile molecular materials that are useful, for example, for the fast, selective and sensitive detection of specific analytes of environmental and food interest, used for real-time monitoring of pollutant emissions and food freshness/quality.

The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together the latest developments in the field of fluorescent sensors for food and environment applications, hosting a mix of original research articles and short critical reviews.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Ivan Pietro Oliveri
Guest Editor

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• environmental pollutants
• food quality
• heavy metals and anions sensing
• fluorescent quantum dots
• luminescent metal organic frameworks (LMOFs)
• fluorescent polymers
• fluorescent small molecules and supramolecular sensors
• vapoluminescent materials