Smart Materials for Switchable Sensors
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2016) | Viewed by 63244
Special Issue Editor
Interests: smart materials; advanced theranostics; superthin biodevices; responsive bio-interfaces
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Dear Colleagues,
The designing of responsive materials through physical and/or chemical indices has been a recent focus of sensor science and technology. The subject of responsive material design is a newly emerging supra-disciplinary field with many commercial possibilities. Smart materials are capable of responding via both significant changes in their properties and minor changes in the environment. Responsive materials are becoming widespread. Researchers seek to acquire knowledge about the chemistry and mechanism of triggers and/or switchable sensing, which induce conformational changes in materials structures. Researchers are also seeking to devise methods of controlling these materials and their changes so as to apply them. New switchable sensors are being formulated that can specifically sense targets and regulate in a like mode. State-of-the-art smart materials enable the fabrication of a range of on/off-switchable sensors.
Prof. Ashutosh Tiwari
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- responsive materials
- triggered surfaces
- on/off-switchable sensors
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