Ionic Liquids
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2016) | Viewed by 44678
Special Issue Editors
Interests: electrochemistry and surface chemistry; chemical sensors and biosensors; new analytical techniques; ionic liquids and conductive polymers
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Interests: physical and analytical electrochemistry; electrochemical and spectrometric sensors; ionic liquids and molten salts for chemical and electrochemical processes; amperometric gas sensors; application of room temperature ionic liquids to sensors.
Interests: Development of chemical and biochemical materials (e.g., polymers, ionic liquids, and their composites) for the recognition and quantitative detection of chemical and biological species in real life environments; sensor designs based on mass, optical, and electrochemical transduction mechanisms with particular emphasis on the integration for enhanced reliability; generation and analysis of complex real time sensor data via data analysis algorithms for complex environments in order to build into prototype development.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Following the 1980s PC revolution and the 1990s internet revolution, recent decades have experienced a revolution in sensor research which promises to have a significant impact on a broad range of applications including national security, health care, environment, energy, industry, food safety, and manufacturing. Ionic liquids possess the flexibility of organics, durability of inorganics, and recognition ability of biomaterials. They have gained a substantial growth in renewed interests in various applications over the last 20 years, including such key areas as sustainable energy, biomass, biorefineries, renewable fuels and chemicals, materials, pharmaceuticals, separations, catalysis, biotechnology and environmental monitoring (to name a few). Interest in their application in sensors is growing but challenges remain, including: (1) the ability to impart significant performance improvements and advantages to sensors over conventional approaches; (2) practicality of use in sensor production (manufacturing) and in implementation (field use); (3) issues of biocompatibilitly and toxicity; (4) materials compatibility issues; and (5) ionic liquid cost. This list is certainly not all-inclusive. A main driving force behind sensor research with these media has been not only the sheer novelty of them compared to molecular liquids, which is substantial, but also the promise of realizing sensors with new properties and capabilities, robustness, selectivity and stability that have not been possible by traditional routes and methods. Embedded within this long-term goal are a host of fundamental questions: the nature of interactions between analyte and the ionic liquid medium and how the medium can be manipulated to rationally improve sensor performance, for example. There are many challenges to be solved in this exciting field, but these are the central and fundamental challenges facing researchers if ionic liquids are to have a prominent position in the future of sensors.
In this Special Issue, we would like to bring together state of the art research and development that addresses the benefits and challenges of using ionic liquids for a broad range of sensor and sensor system development. Topics of primary interest include, but are not limited to, ionic liquids as sensing materials for chemical and biosensor development, ionic liquids as components of sensor systems, ionic liquids based sensor system integration, ionic liquids sensor miniaturization and sensor array development for detecting a broad range of analytes in gas, liquid and solid phases. All types of sensor platforms and transducers are invited, including electrochemical, chemiresistive, spectrometric, fiber optic and mass sensitive approaches, as well as sensors at the interface of nanotechnology and ionic liquids research.
In this Special Issue, we solicit review articles, original research papers, and short communications covering all aspects of the fundamentals and applications of ionic liquids in sensors, including: sensing structures and transducers, sensor interface design and modeling, sensor miniaturization, sensor system integration, etc. Submissions should clearly indicate which open challenges in using ionic liquids in sensor applications the work is addressing. Authors are invited to contact the guest editors prior to submission if they are uncertain whether their work falls within the general scope of this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Xiangqun Zeng
Dr. Michael T. Carter
Dr. Abdul Rehman
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ionic liquids
- sensors
- electrochemical sensors
- miniaturized sensors
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