Research and Development of Sensing Materials and Devices
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 466
Special Issue Editors
Interests: new low dimensional optical materials; semiconductor device; hydrogel; liquid crystal materials; magneto-optics; electro-optics
Interests: low dimensional materials; energy storage materials
Interests: lithium ion batteries; two dimensional materials
2. Monash Suzhou Research Institute, Monash University, Suzhou 250000, China
Interests: two-dimensional materials; heat transfer; thermal management; electronic materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite submissions to a Special Issue of the open access journal Sustainability in the area of the Research and Development of Sensing Materials and Devices. In recent years, bio/chemical sensors have become an inseparable part of modern society with broad applications in industrial chemical production processes, pharmaceuticals, food products, environmental monitoring, security, indoor monitoring and so on. Compared to physical sensors, electrically transduced chemical sensing needs to investigate the effect of the chemical interfaces between the material and the analyte. On the other hand, optical chemical sensors, discovering the analyte information through optical phenomena resulting from the interface interaction of the analyte and receptor, are widely applied in many fields of modern analytical practice due to their simplicity in preparation and signal acquisition, low costs and fast response time. The interfaces mentioned above play a key role in determining the sensitivity, selectivity, stability and biocompatibility of chemical sensing devices. Therefore, we need to design and fabricate appropriate sensing materials with large, exposed surfaces available for material–analyte interactions, suitable active sites for efficient and selective analyte binding, the ability to convert binding events into detectable signals, and good mechanical and processing properties, such as fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, conductive polymers, two-dimensional nanomaterials, metallic and semiconductive nanoparticles and so on.
This Special Issue is focused on the Research and Development of Sensing Materials and Devices. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Preparation of sensing materials and device construction
- Chemical sensors
- Biological sensors
- Optical chemical sensors
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Baofu Ding
Dr. Sheng Wei
Dr. Minwei Xu
Dr. Minsu Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- chemical sensors
- biological sensors
- optical chemical sensors
- sensing materials and device
- nanomaterials
- conductive polymers
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