Novel Application of Nanoengineered Microelectrodes
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanoelectronics, Nanosensors and Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 6887
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Neurotechnology; Circuit Neuroscience; Nano-Engineering; Computational and Sensory Neuroscience
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The past two decades have witnessed accelerated development in the field of nanoscience, including applications of new nanomaterials, nanoelectronics, nano-optics, and nanofluidics based concepts in fields ranging from physics to the life sciences. Today, these nanotechnology-based solutions are poised to revolutionize critical facets in a variety of fields connected to nanoscience. Of note, and specifically within the life-sciences, is the realization of micro- and nanoelectrodes and their applications which have seen tremendous growth over the last two decades. Such electrode technologies, wherein the electrode size scale from micron to sub-micron, can exhibit unique electrical and electrochemical properties which makes them readily poised to leave a lasting impact in the field of sensing. The incorporation and use of such electrodes and associated systems in neuroscience, cellular sensing, fluidics, and electrochemistry is particularly important as the application space rendered by these technologies has vastly increased the range of measurements that are now possible. A key to enabling this has been improvements in fabrication and engineering electrodes, texturing nanoelectrodes with innovative new materials, and integrating micro and nanoelectrodes with custom electronics and techniques. Moreover, with shrinking electrode dimensions new exotic electrostatic and electrochemical effects become pertinent and are being used in a range of applications spanning biomolecular detection to intracellular sensing.
In this review, we invite a collection of original articles aimed at demonstrating new and novel nanoelectrode concepts with their associated application space. Special emphasis will be placed on articles that highlight operational principles along with the associated design constraints and relevance to fields including but not limited to biosensing, neuroscience, and lab-chip applications.
Prof. Dr. Andreas Schaefer
Prof. Dr. Krishna Jayant
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- new materials and associated material properties for nanoelectrodes and microelectrodes
- physical and operating principles of nanoelectrodes for applications in the life sciences
- nanoengineering based fabrication techniques (Ex: scanning ion deposition, FIB deposition etc)
- nanoelectrode and microelectrode impedance properties and measurement techniques (ex: related to properties of porous electrodes, flexible electrodes, polymer electrodes, emerging electrode concepts etc.)
- applications of nanoelectrodes in electrophysiology
- applications of nanoelectrodes in peripheral nervous system
- applications of nanoelectrodes in lab-chip systems for physiology
- nanoelectrode instrumentation and device-circuit co-integration
- nanoelectrodes for optical perturbation of cells nanoelectrodes and system integration
- nanoelectrochemistry
- nanoelectrode based biosensing and bioelectronic solutions
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