Optical Nanosensors for Environmental and Biomedical Monitoring
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2025 | Viewed by 330
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Interests: nanosensors; plasmonic materials; surface-enhanced Raman scattering-based detection; rapid detection; microfluidics; paper-based chips
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Dear Colleagues,
Optical nanosensors are a class of nanoscale sensing systems that utilize optical principles for detection, offering advantages such as high sensitivity, rapid response, and multifunctionality. In recent years, optical nanosensors have demonstrated significant potential in environmental and biomedical monitoring, including applications in pollutant detection, pathogen identification, and disease biomarker screening. Due to their unique capabilities, optical nanosensors have become powerful tools for addressing complex detection challenges and have achieved remarkable progress in fields such as environmental monitoring, clinical diagnostics, and health management.
For this Special Issue, we cordially invite you to submit original research papers and review articles to foster a discussion on the current status, challenges, and prospects of optical nanosensors in environmental and biomedical monitoring. We hope that this Special Issue will promote interdisciplinary collaboration, drive innovation in optical nanosensing technologies, and contribute to solving monitoring challenges in environmental and health-related fields. This Special Issue will cover all aspects of optical nanosensors, including the latest developments in the following areas: novel optical nanosensor design, optical sensing mechanisms, synthesis and functionalization of nanomaterials, multimodal sensing strategies, environmental pollutant detection, biomarker identification, real-time monitoring systems, and other related technologies. If you are unsure whether your work falls within the scope of this Special Issue, please contact its editor before submission.
Dr. Zhiyang Zhang
Dr. Ling Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- optical nanosensors
- colorimetric sensor
- lateral flow test
- quantum dot sensor
- SERS sensor
- environmental monitoring
- real-time monitoring
- pollutant detection
- biomedical detection
- point-of-care testing
- disease diagnostics
- biomarker
- pathogen detection
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