Paper-Based Biosensing Platforms

Dear Colleagues,

Cellulose is one of the most abundant biopolymers on earth. It offers advantages such as portability, sensitivity, specificity, ease of use and device independence without compromising affordability. Due to the physical and chemical flexibility of cellulose, these types of devices can be architecturally modified indefinitely, making them very attractive for biosensor applications.

In addition, cellulose-based biosensors can meet the World Health Organization’s criteria ASSURED (affordable, sensitive, specific, user-friendly, fast and robust, device-free and available to the end-user) for ideal diagnostic tests/devices. Cellulose thus offers excellent materials to the biosensing community for the development of innovative analytical devices.

This Special Issue focuses on innovative approaches that address the design, fabrication and advantageous analytical performance of paper-based biosensor platforms. Applications may include medical/clinical diagnostics, healthcare, point-of-care testing, environmental monitoring, food analysis or other biochemical and biological analyses.

Dr. Felismina Teixeira Coelho Moreira
Dr. Gabriela Martins
Guest Editors

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