Advances in Nanosensors and Nanogenerators

Dear Colleagues,

Multidisciplinary research on nanotechnology enables the design of miniaturized sensors. Different nanomaterials offer almost unlimited possibilities for new sensor platform designs to address the growing needs for enhanced sensitivity, selectivity, rapid response, reliable measuring in untreated samples, on-site testing, and miniaturization of sensing elements.

The last few decades have witnessed an impressive advancement in the realization of sensors based on nanotechnology achievements. Driven by the plethora of new nanostructures proposed by academic and industrial research teams working on apparently distant fields in nanoscience, new devices have been designed and realized as chemical, biological, diagnostic, or environmental nanosensors. In the last few years, intensive research has been carried out in the synthesis of functional nanomaterials with superior gas sensing performance (i.e., sensitivity, selectivity, and stability). Dots, nanowires, nanoribbons, nanotubes, nanorods, monolayers, and hierarchical nanomaterials, have been synthesized via a wide spectrum of techniques, including solution synthesis, smart anodization, spray pyrolysis, or chemical vapor deposition, to cite a few. The integration of these nanomaterials onto different transducer platforms, in particular MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) or polymeric, in view of obtaining functional nanosensors has been the subject of many studies, in which yield, reproducibility, reliability, and long-term stability have been addressed. The goal of this Special Issue is to bring together various on-going and frontier research regarding development of fundamental sciences, techniques, and end-of-use applications of nanosensors and nanogenerators. The areas of interest include new concepts for design, preparation, characterization, and applications of smart nanomaterials for various stimuli detection. 

Dr. Krystian Mistewicz
Guest Editor

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