Biological Engineering and Biosensors Applications for Agri-Food Quality and Safety Monitoring
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2024) | Viewed by 2122
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nanomaterial; analytical chemistry; biosensors; sensors
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Agri-food is essential to sustain life. The worldwide agri-food market has grown rapidly recently due to tremendous biological, chemical, and physical threats to food products. There are large amounts of consumers demanding processing monitoring and quality and safety control of these products. Consequently, farmers and industries are adopting various technological methodologies for the facile, effective, and efficient analysis of hazardous chemical compounds or bio-entities in food products.
The recent advances in biodevice engineering and developments of biosensing methodologies promote biosensors as an emerging tool in the food quality and safety monitoring field. The advantages of biosensors over traditional methods include their sensitivity, selectivity, durability, simplicity of operation, portability, and time and economic efficiency.
Both review and original research papers are encouraged, and potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Immunosensor applications in biohazard monitoring;
- Development of oligonucleotide sensors in food safety;
- Affinity-based biosensor applications as food quality indicators;
- State of the art and new challenges in SELEX for aptasensing applications;
- New trends in nanomaterial fabrication for biosensing applications;
- Microfluidic and microarray in manufacturing of biosensing devices;
- The synthesis of other materials (polymer, MOF, COF, HOF, etc.) in environmental and food safety.
Dr. Weizheng Wang
Dr. Jiehao Guan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- immunosensor
- affinity-sensor
- oligonucleotide sensor
- SELEX
- microfluidic
- microarray
- nanomaterial
- agri-food system
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