Fluorescent Probes for Biosensing and Cell Imaging
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensing and Imaging".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 26 February 2026 | Viewed by 7
Special Issue Editors
Interests: fluorescent probe; biosensing; cell imaging
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Interests: fluorescent nanomaterials
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Interests: carbon dots; microscopic image
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over recent decades, the enormous growth in the diversity of artificially synthesized fluorescent probes has greatly promoted the development of cell biology. For imaging different cellular structures, a series of molecular probes have been designed to target cytoskeletal proteins, mitochondrion, lysosome, peroxisome, ER, Golgi apparatus, cell nucleus, lipid droplet, and plasma membrane. Typically, the fluorescent probes can serve as highly sensitive indicators to detect the intrinsically non-fluorescent species and parameters of cells, such as metal ions, glutathione, reactive oxygen species (ROS), adenosine triphosphate (ATP), pH value, membrane potentials, and so on. Nonetheless, the demand for high-quality fluorescent probes that have a high quantum yield, near-infrared emission, and high selectivity and sensitivity and are biocompatible, easy to use, and especially for super-resolution imaging is ever increasing. Therefore, this Special Issue “Fluorescent Probes for Biosensing and Cell Imaging” focuses on the recent advances in the production of novel cell probes including small molecule dyes, fluorescent antibodies, and fluorescent nanomaterials (inorganic QDs, carbon dots, fluorescent metal nanoclusters, fluorescent dye-loaded NPs). We invite submissions of research that help to advance the field of fluorescent probe technology and its application for the microscopic image analysis of biomarkers.
Dr. Jian Xu
Dr. Jia Chen
Dr. Yonglei Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- fluorescent probe
- biosensing
- cell imaging
- cellular structure
- small molecule dye
- fluorescent antibody
- fluorescent nanomaterial
- microscopic image
- biomarker
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