Editorial Board Members' Collection Series: Biosensors Based on Nanotechnology: Fabrication, Structure and Application
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 April 2024) | Viewed by 3244
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electrochemitry; nanotechnology; atomic force microscopy; biosensors; sensors
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Interests: nano-biosensors; chemical sensors and biosensors for food safety; biomedical applications; single molecule sensing; nano-biomaterials and multi-functional biointerfaces; chem- and bio-sensors for air and water quality control; kinetic (enzyme-based)- and affinity-based biosensors; cell- and cell culture- based biosensors
Interests: biosensor; biochips; electrochemistry; material chemistry; analytical chemistry; nanotechnology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Biosensors are becoming indispensable in a variety of fields, ranging from medical care to the food and pharmacological industry and quality control in environmental, agriculture, marine and military sectors. A biosensor is a device that uses a biological recognition element (proteins, nucleic acids, immunosystems, aptamers, tissues, whole cells or organelles) immobilised onto a transducer to detect a target analyte, usually by electrical, thermal or optical signals. Advances in nanotechnology have led to the development of many nanostructured materials, including carbon nanotubes, carbon nanofibers, graphene-related materials, fullerenes, metal nanoparticles, quantum dots, polymers, nanocomposites and dendrimers. Nanotechnology also allows the implementation of biosensors in various forms, such as wearable, miniaturised arrays, and integrated in microfluidic devices. Thus, nanotechnology-based biosensors based on transducer miniaturisation and/or modification by nanomaterials emerge as promising next-generation analytical devices with enhanced biocompatibility and stability, improved selectivity, sensitivity and reproducibility, and easy miniaturization and automation.
This Special Issue welcomes contributions devoted to the design, nanotechnological fabrication, characterization, and application of biosensors based on nanostructured materials, aiming to discuss the issues, approaches, and challenges of this interdisciplinary frontier between biological detection and material science. This will stimulate a broader interest in the development of nanotechnology-based biosensors applied to biomedical diagnosis, point-of-care monitoring of treatment and disease progression, biomedical research and drug discovery, food control, chemical analysis, forensics, and environmental monitoring.
Dr. Ana-Maria Chiorcea-Paquim
Prof. Dr. Aleksandr Simonian
Dr. Hafsa Korri-Youssoufi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biosensors
- nanomaterials
- nanotechnology
- nanosensors
- nanoelectronics
- bioelectronics
- nanobiology
- nanochemistry
- nanomedicine
- nanotoxicology
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