Optical Immunosensors II

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Volume will be dedicated to optical immunosensing. For decades, these sensors have been finding their way into an increasing number of industrial, environmental, pharmaceutical, medical, food quality control, and engineering applications. Optical immunosensors cost-effectively improve the reliability and efficiency of control systems, making them in great demand. Thus, this Special Issue aims to publish research with a broad scope covering all the aspects of optical sensing. According to the working principle of the transducer, optical immunosensors are based on absorption, reflectance, luminescence (fluorescence and phosphorescence), reflectance, chemi/bioluminescence, thermo/electrochemiluminescence, Raman spectrometry–surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)–refractometry–surface Plasmon resonance (SPR) and interferometry–photoacoustic, photoluminescence, and photoelectrochemistry. Examples of immunosensors include antibody-based imaging, antibody-based microarrays, and miniaturized optical immunosensors, as well as the incorporation to immunosensing platforms of nanomaterials such as quantum and carbon dots, graphene, metal–organic frameworks, and nucleic acid origami, among many others for plasmonic and photonic configurations.

This Special Issue welcomes both reviews and original research articles in the field of optical immunosensors. Topics include but are not restricted to optical fiber platforms, liquid crystals, optical waveguide light-mode spectroscopy (OWLS), white light reflectance spectroscopy (WLRS), and dual-polarization interferometry (DPI). Combinations with biological or bioinspired receptors such as aptamers, dendrimers, bacteriophages, affibodies, nanobiohybrid materials, and molecularly imprinted polymers are also of interest. There is no limit to the chemical and biological aspects by which an optical immunosensor can be manufactured. This issue emphasizes both the biological and transduction aspects of optical immunosensors. Please refer to Volume I here.

Dr. Elena Benito-Peña
Prof. Dr. David Gimenez-Romero
Guest Editors

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