Sensors and Actuators for Lab-on-Chip Applications
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 18
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Lab-on-chip (LOC) technology has revolutionized point-of-care diagnostics, drug development, and environmental monitoring. The ever-increasing progress in micro-nanotechnology and materials science has fueled the development of sophisticated miniaturized systems enabling rapid, precise, and cost-effective analyses. However, establishing these microenvironments necessitates precise local regulation of the variables influencing the phenomena under study. Consequently, integrating sensing and actuating elements into microfluidic devices enables real-time monitoring and accurate control of physical, chemical, or biochemical parameters with high accuracy, selectivity, and rapid responsiveness. In this context, artificial intelligence (AI) can play a crucial role in enhancing the functionality of the sensors and actuators within microfluidic devices, enabling the enhancement of adaptive responses, the detection of complex patterns, and the increase in data interpretation (“intelligent sensing”).
This special issue explores the latest novel developments in sensors and actuoators integration within lab-on-chip (LOC) devices, highlighting breakthroughs in microfluidics, fabrication techniques, materials, and data processing. This issue will feature cutting-edge research on chemical and physical sensors, biosensors, actuators AI-driven sensors, and multimodal sensing approaches for a broad range of applications, e.g., healthcare and point-of-care diagnostics, drug development and screening, environmental monitoring, wearable and implantable devices, etc.
Dr. Joanna Filippi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- lab-on-chip devices
- actuators
- integrated sensors
- microfluidics
- materials for sensing
- biosensors
- intelligent sensing
- point-of-care diagnostics
- real-time monitoring
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