Optical Nanosensors for Biosensing
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 July 2020) | Viewed by 13719
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Interests: optical biochemical sensors; photonic structures; metal oxide nanostructures; nanomaterials for optoelectronic and sensing devices
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Interests: immunoassays and immunosensors for biological markers; environmental or food hazard; new substrates and methods for biomolecule immobilization and/or detection; development and evaluation of bioanalytical microsystems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Probing matter with light has been one of the most elegant and non-destructive means for scientists to study, explore, and understand biological materials and processes. A plethora of examples exist, where light has been the enabling tool that probes, interrogates, and elucidates biochemical events either in vitro or in vivo, and has been humankind’s ally in detecting biological entities in minute quantities. The recent advances in nanofabrication and emerging nanomaterials and nanostructures have been enhancing the optical detection “arsenal” with disruptive and breakthrough nanophotonic tools, which will form the basis for the next generation of optical sensing techniques and devices.
This Special Issue is devoted to collecting the recent advances in nanofabrication, nanomaterials, and nanophotonics that contribute to the development of novel and radical optical biosensing tools applicable to medical and biochemical diagnostics (both in vivo and in vitro), environmental monitoring, food quality and safety assessment, and biohazard detection. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Novel nanostructures and nanomaterials for optical sensing
- Nanofabrication techniques for optical transducers
- Nanostructures for optical sensors—nanophotonics
- Biodiagnostics
- Label-free optical transducers
- Optical cellular probes
- Nanomaterials for intracellular imaging
Dr. Eleni Makarona
Dr. Pangiota Petrou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nanophotonics
- nano-optics
- optical sensors
- label-free detection schemes
- in vitro diagnostics
- in vivo diagnostics
- cellular and intracellular imaging
- optical cellular probes
- pathogen/microorganism detection
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