Thin Film Biosensing

Dear Colleagues,

In healthcare industry, biosensors are becoming efficient tools that are able to improve the everyday life of patients thanks to point-of-care monitoring. Other fields of application involve food safety and security, agriculture, and envorimental monitoring.  The biosensor market is estimeted at $13 bilion annual turnover, but glucose bisosensors represent the 85% of the sale volume. For these reasons, new research efforts should be devoted to extending the applications of these devices to the realible detection of other compounds. The most common biosensors exploit a biological element entrapped in a thin film as a trasduction element.

The aim of this issue is to provide an overview of the use of thin films as active materials to develop biosensors. Different kind of materials can be considered both organic and inorganic, and biosensors with different transduction modes are taken into account, ranging from optical to electrochemical transduction. Work addressing all aspects of thin films for bisoensing applications will be considered, including but not limited to new synthetic protocols, new materials development, and the development of techniques to characterize thin films.

Prof. Erika Scavetta
Dr. Isacco Gualandi
Guest Editors

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