New Strategies and Current Challenges for Label-Free Biosensors Improvement
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 3514
Special Issue Editors
Interests: thermoplasmonics; Raman spectroscopy; nanophotonics; pump–probe spectroscopy; SPR sensors; plasmonics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Current events have shown the necessity to perform a fast, efficient, and straightforward detection of low concentrations of organic elements. In this period of the global COVID-19 pandemic, most clinical testing occurs in large, centralized laboratories to concentrate operations in a single location for cost savings and standardized results. With standardization, protocols are optimized for training staff, yielding minimum delays and controllable budget objectives. However, centralized laboratory-based testing is heavily dependent on advanced technologies that increase in costs that are becoming prohibitive for all but the richest countries.
Biosensors are once again highlighted as the technologies able to respond quickly to a need for simple and reliable detection requiring no specific knowledge, low reagent, and massive production to address the important societal challenge of providing quality health care at affordable costs for all by “doing more with less”.
This Special Issue solicits innovative contributions from both industry and academia in biosensing areas covered by a wide range of devices, based on optical, acoustical, chemical, thermal, new materials and electrical parameters but not only. New strategies in micropatterning functionalization or biosensor design are also welcomed.
Dr. Jean-François Bryche
Prof. Frédéric Sarry
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Active transport
- Acoustic
- Plasmonics
- Nanobiosensing
- Photonic biosensors
- Raman spectroscopy
- Plasmonics materials
- Innovative biosensors design
- Nanoparticle
- Micropatterning functionalization
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