Nano-Enabled Sensors for High Performance in Detection and Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

Nanotechnologies have revolutionized the field of detection and monitoring, ushering in unprecedented opportunities to deliver high sensitivity within miniaturized footprints for a range of sectors, including healthcare, food, environment, security and outer space. Sensors have been sought to detect and monitor changes in concentrations of molecular analytes present in various scenarios, e.g., molecular biomarkers for healthcare diagnostics, gas compositions for air quality monitoring, toxins in quality control of food and beverages, and the detection of security threats from (bio)chemical terrorism markers. These situations may pose different sets of demands yet can benefit from the development of a common set of key enabling technologies. Nanotechnologies are especially interesting as they contribute to the development of such sensors at different levels, including as nanoscale transducers as a tool for signal enhancement, by bringing the appropriate choice of surface functionality, opportunities for miniaturization, and the means to fit to a desired form factor of choice by an end-user.

This Special Issue welcomes full papers, communications and reviews that push the boundaries of the state of the art in any of the following directions:

• Fundamental investigation of nanostructure and interfacial properties that have potential to impact sensing performance in electrochemical, optical, mechanical or other transduction schemes;
• Nanofabrication technologies in application to design, fabrication and application of nanoscale sensors;
• Addressing challenges in the integration of nanostructures within nano-enabled sensing devices;
• Assay schemes that enable continuous, real-time monitoring of molecular analytes;
• Modelling and simulations enabling the rational design of nano-enabled sensors;
• Novel approaches to multi-modal sensing;
• Novel approaches to multi-analyte sensing;
• Combination of sensors with artificial intelligence tools.

Accepted papers will be published in the joint Special Issue in Nanomaterials or Nanomanufacturing.

Dr. Sivashankar Krishnamoorthy
Guest Editor

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• nanotechnologies
• highly sensitive detection
• continuous monitoring
• healthcare diagnostics
• molecular diagnostics
• point-of-care sensors
• environmental sensors
• homeland security devices
• food and beverage sensors
• sensors for forensics
• sensors for exploration of outer space