Focused on Organic Luminescent Materials and Molecular Recognition

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, the development of chemical sensors that can recognize and sense environmentally- and biologically-important species has emerged as a significant target in the field. In the past decade, anions have played important roles in a wide range of chemical and biological processes; they have become a target of investigation, aimed at sensor development due to their drawbacks in excessive amount. Thus, there have been many methods developed to assess the levels of ions in drinking water and wastes from the refinement process. The design of functionalized organic luminescent receptors that serve as selective chemosensors has gained great interest regardless of the difficulties associated with the similarities of the anions and/or biological molecules. Nevertheless, organic luminescent materials make an ideal candidate for promising applications in biological analytes and environmental monitoring due to their optical and luminescent properties make them easy to detect ions. This Special Issue focused on organic luminescent materials and molecular recognition which illustrating the suitability of newly developed sensors for fluorescent analysis applications, as well as describing novel molecular recognition in solving real life analytical problems.

Prof. Dr. Sheshanath V. Bhosale
Guest Editor

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