Portable Optical Biosensor Devices
A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical and Photonic Biosensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2022) | Viewed by 12662
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optical biosensors; chemiluminescence biosensors; chemosensors; paper-based devices
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: optical biosensors; chemiluminescence biosensors; chemosensors; paper-based devices
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The main topic of this Special Issue is portable optical biosensor devices for specific chemicals and biomolecules analysis in different fields of application, such as healthcare, food quality, and environmental and astrochemical analysis. For that, this Special Issue aims to collect original articles and reviews highlighting research advances, microfabrication and 3D tecnologies, innovative applications, new challenges, and future perspectives of portable optical biosensor devices in important areas such as health, agri-food, and the environment.
Optical biosensors are one of the “fastest and cheapest” biosensors thank to their simplicity and immediacy of manufacture. Disposable (bio)sensors based on optical detection methods (colorimetry, (bio)chemiluminescence, fluorescence, plasmonic resonance, etc) are leading to new possibilities in the selective detection and sensitive quantification of a large number of chemicals and biomolecules. Portable optical biosensor devices, including wax-printed paper-based disposables, lateral flow strips, microfluidics, modified surfaces, and nanomaterials integrated within miniaturized optical detectors such as smartphones, complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) and charge-coupled device (CCD) cameras, photodiode arrays, etc. are in tune with the growing need for the development of portable devices and for performing rapid and accurate in situ analyses.
The ability to perform accurate and reproducible analyses in real time, quickly using portable and economical devices, with the precision ever closer to the quality guaranteed by expensive and complex laboratory analyses, will facilitate the way we have to monitor health and the environment and prevent diseases and environmental disasters and remedy them immediately.
Dr. Donato Calabria
Dr. Mara Mirasoli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biosensor
- optical biosensing
- surface plasmon resonance
- fluorescence
- (bio)chemiluminescence
- colorimetry
- electrochemiluminescence
- paper-based analytical device
- microfluidics
- smartphone-based biosensor
- portable devices
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