Chemical Sensors for Toxic Chemical Detection: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 105
Special Issue Editor
Interests: electrochemistry; Electroanalysis; Electrochemical sensors; surface modification; carbon electrodes; Polyelectrolytes; Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy; voltammetry
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The growing interest in chemical sensing of toxic chemicals has arisen due to the rising demand for health and environmental standards, security and safety. Toxic chemicals (toxic inorganic species, gases, carcinogens substances, pesticides, etc.) have a wide range of household, industrial, and military applications, as cumulative exposure at trace concentrations can have long-term adverse effects. Chemical sensors are attractive devices that offer significant benefits, such as low cost, portability, simplicity of operation, selectivity, durability, etc.
This Special Issue will focus on publishing original and review articles discussing recent advances and challenges in the development of chemical sensors to identify toxic chemicals. Herein, this Special Issue will focus on the following themes:
- New trends in the development of electrochemical sensors (immunosensors, biosensors, affinity-based, DNA-based, mediator-based, semiconductor-based, etc.) for the determination of toxic chemicals;
- Carbon nanomaterials in a chemical sensing system;
- Composite materials as sensing elements in the determination of toxic chemicals;
- Biochips and microarrays in the manufacturing of sensors;
- Optical sensors and arrays in the detection of harmful substances;
- Acoustic-wave-based sensors;
- Toxic chemical sensors based on living organisms, tissues, and cells;
- Metal nanoparticles in sensing toxic chemicals.
Dr. Marijo Buzuk
Guest Editor
Josipa Dugeč
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- chemical sensing
- toxic chemicals
- electrochemical sensors
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