Symmetry for Advanced Sensing: Novel Materials, Structures, Systems and Signal Processing
A Special Issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994) belonging to the section "F: Engineering and Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2027 | Viewed by 20
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce a new Special Issue of Symmetry, “Symmetry for Advanced Sensing: Novel Materials, Structures, Systems and Signal Processing”.
Sensing technologies are advancing rapidly across diverse fields, including biomedical diagnostics, environmental monitoring, food safety, industrial automation, wearable electronics, and intelligent systems. These advances are increasingly driven by innovations in functional materials, engineered structures, integrated systems, and intelligent signal processing. Symmetry principles—whether in spatial arrangements, structural design, system architectures, or data patterns—offer a powerful and unifying framework for understanding and enhancing sensor performance. Conversely, deliberate symmetry breaking can give rise to novel sensing mechanisms and improved selectivity, sensitivity, and robustness.
This Special Issue aims to explore how symmetry and asymmetry principles can be exploited across the full spectrum of sensing research. We welcome contributions that explicitly address symmetry-related concepts in materials, structures, systems, or signal processing, and that demonstrate their impact on sensing performance or novel functionalities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Symmetry-guided design of novel sensing materials, such as metamaterials, plasmonic nanostructures, photonic/phononic crystals, 2D materials, and chiral structures;
- Structural symmetry/asymmetry in sensor architectures, transducers, resonators, and micro/nano-electromechanical systems;
- Symmetry principles in sensor arrays, networks, and multi-sensor fusion systems;
- Symmetry-based signal processing, pattern recognition, and machine learning for sensing data;
- Symmetry-enabled sensing mechanisms in optical, electrical, electrochemical, mechanical, acoustic, thermal, and magnetic sensors;
- Applications in biomedical, environmental, food, industrial, wearable, and autonomous sensing, among other sensing modalities.
By bringing together multidisciplinary research across communities, this Special Issue seeks to highlight how symmetry concepts can drive the next generation of sensing, from fundamental mechanisms to emerging applications. Original research articles and comprehensive reviews are welcome.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Xiaogang Lin
Dr. Yong Zhou
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- symmetry
- sensing
- sensors
- sensing materials
- sensor structures
- sensor systems
- signal processing
- machine learning
- metamaterials
- nanostructures
- biosensors
- chemical sensors
- physical sensors
- wearable sensors
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