Smart Sensing: Advances in Nanomaterials and Molecular Recognition for Chemical Detection
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 21
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Interests: chemical sensors; potentiometry; ion-selective electrodes; nanomaterials; pesticide analysis; surfactants
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Dear Colleagues,
Recent progress in nanotechnology and molecular recognition has a great impact on the field of chemical sensing. A combination of different types of nanomaterials and molecular recognition elements, such as molecularly imprinted polymers, supramolecular complexes, and aptamers, has resulted in significant breakthroughs in design of chemical sensors, enabling improved selectivity and sensitivity, lower limit of detection, faster response time, and wider detection range of various analytes of interest. Also, these advancements offer great potential for miniaturization and development of portable and wearable sensing devices. Furthermore, the development of artificial intelligence and its incorporation into sensor data analysis could lead to new intelligent and autonomous detection systems.
This Special Issue highlights innovative research in the development of new sensors for a wide range of applications, including sensors for environmental monitoring, food safety control, industrial process control, and biomedical diagnostics. It aims to provide a comprehensive collection of the articles that explore the most recent advancements in sensor development, new transduction mechanisms, and application of newly developed sensor devices. The advances in nanomaterials and molecular recognition will be discussed along with future prospects. We hope that researchers active in this area will join us to promote the activities in this field of research.
We cordially invite you to submit an article to this Special Issue. We welcome short communications, full research articles, and timely reviews.
Dr. Mirela Samardzic
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanotechnology
- molecular recognition
- chemical sensing
- environmental monitoring
- food safety control
- industrial process control
- biomedical diagnostics
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