Advances in Biosensing Materials for the Design of Smart Interfaces

Dear Colleagues,

Biosensing materials, with their peculiar abilities to feel and react to external stimuli by changing their properties, are rapidly diffusing in different application areas including healthcare, early diagnosis, and environmental monitoring. In particular, several efforts are currently focused on the development of new materials, able to change their structure, shape, color, or temperature through the application of external driving forces (acoustic, electrical, magnetic, luminous, mechanical, and/or thermal).

In the last few decades, an enormous amount of research has been carried out for the realization of biosensing devices, through the synthesis of materials and an accurate engineering of the interfaces, leading to the development of micro- and nano-structured interfaces based on bottom-up approaches, suitable to confer to biosensing materials peculiar features in terms of reversibility, reactivity to external stimuli, and self-healing.

In this context, the design of biosensing materials is a relevant issue that requires a multidisciplinary approach at the cutting edge of the chemistry, physics, biology and materials science.

This Special Issue aims to describe the recent progress in the synthesis and processing of biosensing materials for the design of smart interfaces to be applied in, but not limited to, biomedical applications, bioengineering, and bioelectronics. Both original articles and reviews are welcome.

Dr. Anna Borriello
Dr. Francesca Santoro
Dr. Vincenzo Guarino
Guest Editors

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