Applications of Nanocomposite for Optical Fiber Sensors
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanophotonics Materials and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 113
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Interests: optical fiber sensors; biosensors; plasmon; interface
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Dear Colleagues,
Recent advances in nanocomposite materials have opened new opportunities for the development of high-performance optical fiber sensors. By combining nanomaterials such as graphene, carbon nanotubes, metal nanoparticles and MXenes with appropriate host matrices, nanocomposites offer tailored optical, electrical and mechanical properties that significantly enhance the sensitivity, selectivity and functionality of fiber-optic sensing platforms. These improvements are driving the adoption of optical fiber sensors in a wide range of application domains, including biomedical diagnostics, environmental monitoring, smart structures, wearable devices and industrial process control.
This Special Issue aims to collect and disseminate the latest research on the design, fabrication, characterization and application of nanocomposite-based optical fiber sensors. Both original research articles and comprehensive review papers are welcome.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
- Nanocomposite materials (graphene, CNTs, MXenes, metal nanoparticles, MOFs, etc.) for fiber-optic sensing;
- SPR and LSPR optical fiber sensors enhanced by nanocomposite coatings;
- Nanocomposite-coated fiber gratings (FBG, LPG, TFBG) for physical and chemical sensing;
- Tapered, D-shaped and microstructured optical fiber sensors with nanocomposite overlayers;
- Lossy mode resonance (LMR) sensors based on nanocomposite thin films;
- Optical fiber humidity, gas, pH and biochemical sensors incorporating nanocomposites;
- Nanocomposite-enabled fiber sensors for temperature, strain and refractive index measurement;
- Flexible and wearable optical fiber sensors using nanocomposite materials;
- Novel fabrication techniques (e.g., layer-by-layer assembly, dip-coating, electrospinning);
- Machine learning-assisted signal processing for nanocomposite fiber-optic sensors;
- Emerging applications in medical diagnostics, environmental monitoring, food safety and smart manufacturing.
Dr. Yunyun Huang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanocomposite materials
- optical fiber sensors
- surface plasmon resonance (SPR)
- fiber gratings
- lossy mode resonance (LMR)
- chemical and biomedical sensing
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