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Special Issue "Editorial Board Members' Collection Series: Advanced Sensing and Imaging Technologies"

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensing and Imaging".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2023 | Viewed by 721

Special Issue Editors

Laser Biomedical Research Center, G. R. Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Interests: label-free cellular and tissue imaging; turbidity suppression imaging; optical coherence tomography; quantitative phase imaging; optofluidics
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BW, UK
Interests: polarization imaging; electromagnetic theory; whispering gallery mode resonators; plasmonic sensing; disordered media; information theory

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Sensing and imaging technologies are pervasive in many scientific fields and applications since they enable us to measure and view the world around us at scales ranging from the nanoscopic to the astronomical. Rapid advances in terms of sensitivity, resolution, speed, and signal processing are allowing ever more complex problems and challenges, such as study of dynamic biological processes, single molecule sensing, imaging in scattering and in-vivo environments and remote environmental monitoring, to be approached.

This Special Issue, organized by invited members of the editorial board of the Sensing and Imaging section, will collect together the latest scientific achievements in advanced sensing and imaging technologies and their applications. We cordially invite contributors to submit original research articles, and reviews on all aspects of these fields. This includes, but is not limited to, novel sensing platforms or imaging instruments, bio- and physical sensors, imaging in scattering media, superresolution, multimodal or computational imaging methods and associated machine learning algorithms.

Dr. Zahid Yaqoob
Dr. Matthew Foreman
Guest Editors

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“Grafting-To” Covalent Binding of Plasmonic Nanoparticles onto Silica WGM Microresonators: Mechanically Robust Single-Molecule Sensors and Determination of Activation Energies from Single-Particle Events
Sensors 2023, 23(7), 3455; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23073455 - 25 Mar 2023
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We hereby present a novel “grafting-to”-like approach for the covalent attachment of plasmonic nanoparticles (PNPs) onto whispering gallery mode (WGM) silica microresonators. Mechanically stable optoplasmonic microresonators were employed for sensing single-particle and single-molecule interactions in real time, allowing for the differentiation between binding [...] Read more.
We hereby present a novel “grafting-to”-like approach for the covalent attachment of plasmonic nanoparticles (PNPs) onto whispering gallery mode (WGM) silica microresonators. Mechanically stable optoplasmonic microresonators were employed for sensing single-particle and single-molecule interactions in real time, allowing for the differentiation between binding and non-binding events. An approximated value of the activation energy for the silanization reaction occurring during the “grafting-to” approach was obtained using the Arrhenius equation; the results agree with available values from both bulk experiments and ab initio calculations. The “grafting-to” method combined with the functionalization of the plasmonic nanoparticle with appropriate receptors, such as single-stranded DNA, provides a robust platform for probing specific single-molecule interactions under biologically relevant conditions. Full article
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