Polymers Based Sensors
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2019) | Viewed by 13603
Special Issue Editors
Interests: polymers; polymer sensors; high performance polymers; polymers for advanced applications; design and synthesis of advanced polymers; monomers; monomer synthesis; chemical sensors; supramolecular chemistry
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Interests: polymers; micro and nanocellular polymers; design, synthesis and characterization of high performance polymers; nanoporous sensory polymers; polymer foaming processes
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Interests: polymers; polymer sensors; high performance aramids; design, synthesis and characterization of polymers; polymers for advanced applications
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development of supramolecular chemistry by Pedersen, Cram, and Lehn in the 1960s brought forth the growth of a new research field called chemical sensors or chemosensors. These molecules present a receptor which provides information about the chemical composition of its environment through selective interaction with target molecules or analytes. Although they present many advantages, especially their low weight, they are generally water insoluble, exhibit moderate to low light and thermal stability, and tend to migrate when they are dispersed in physical supports, thus limiting their applicability.
In the last few decades, the optimization of polymer-based chemistry has led to a completely new family of sensory materials and devices employing polymers, which have the ability to respond reversibly or irreversibly to different stimuli (temperature, pH, biological molecules, etc.) in their environment. The response can take place in several ways, such as through the modification of surface properties or changes in shape, solubility, color or fluorescence, and can be generally transduced to originate a measurable change through electrical, colorimetric, or piezoelectric variations. This kind of polymers shows interesting properties, combined to the recent optimization of their synthesis and fabrication processes, and can be manufactured into different shapes, such as micro/fibers, films, beads, coatings, or wires. For these reasons, polymer-based sensors are employed in a wide range of applications, with special interest in the use in medical devices and biomedical applications, drug delivery, tissue engineering, as well as bio/sensors.
This Special Issue on Polymer-Based Sensors is devoted to the discussion and dissemination of the latest research in this interesting and quick-evolving field. Special attention will be given to the last developments in the synthesis of specific polymers for recent sensing applications, such as the detection of biomedical and biological molecules, the design of new sensory devices based on polymers, and the optimization of the sensing characteristics of classical sensory polymers employed in the detection of cations and anionic species, explosives or pollutants, which are of particular interest in environmental, food security, and civil and military protection.
Prof. Dr. José Miguel García
Dr. José Antonio Reglero Ruiz
Dr. Miriam Trigo-López
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polymer chemosensors
- colorimetric sensors
- fluorescence sensors
- electrochemical sensors
- piezoelectric sensors
- polymeric sensory devices
- detection of explosives and chemical warfare agents
- sensing of cations and anionic species
- detection of biomolecules
- detection of biomedical analytes
- sensing of pollutants
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