Novel Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensing Technologies and Their Applications
A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensor and Bioelectronic Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 101
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optical biosensor; surface plasmon resonance sensing; optical imaging
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue focuses on discussing new advancements in surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensing strategies and their diverse applications.
SPR sensing has long been valued for its high sensitivity and label-free detection capabilities. A key advantage is the ability to monitor real-time molecular interaction processes, making it a powerful tool for applications such as trace detection, biomolecular interaction analysis, and screening. Over the past years, SPR has become an important technology in many fields, including life sciences, medicine, drug discovery, food safety, environmental monitoring, and forensics.
It is worth noting that the integration of optical imaging techniques has led to the development of SPR imaging (SPRi), enabling simultaneous high-throughput detection at multiple sites. This has significantly improved detection efficiency and reduced sample consumption. Furthermore, the combination of SPR with microscopy techniques has increased the spatial resolution, allowing for the monitoring of biological processes at the cellular level.
More recently, significant advancements in nanotechnology have inspired novel SPR sensor designs using intriguing nanomaterials such as 2D van der Waals (vdWs) materials (for example, graphene/graphene oxide, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), phosphorene, antimonene, tellurene, and metal oxides), 2D hyperbolic metamaterials (HMMs), and 2D optical metasurfaces. These new SPR-based approaches have also demonstrated promising capabilities for the ultrasensitive detection of small molecules.
This Special Issue invites original research papers and review articles covering the latest innovations in SPR sensing strategies and their practical applications. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- New SPR sensing principles, instrumentation, and system developments.
- Biomedical and clinical applications of advanced SPR sensing.
- Novel SPR imaging (microscopy) techniques and their uses.
- Integrations of SPR with other technologies like electrochemistry, optical tweezers, and 2D nanomaterials.
- Theoretical design of novel SPR configuration and illustrative applications.
The goal of this Special Issue is to highlight how continued advancements in SPR sensing can provide improved sensitivity, dynamic range, detection speed, and imaging resolution, ultimately enabling better detection and monitoring solutions for a wide range of biomedical and related fields.
Dr. Youjun Zeng
Dr. Xiantong Yu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- SPR
- SPR imaging (SPRi)
- optical biosensing
- microscopy
- two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials
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