Optical Biosensors for Label-Free Detection
A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical and Photonic Biosensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 1633
Special Issue Editors
2. Departamento de Química, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Interests: optical biosensors; label-free; point-of-care; diffraction; biolayers; gratings; nanopatterning; immunosensors; signal processing; nanostructures; transduction; photonics
2. Departamento de Química, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Interests: immunochemical methods; surface chemistry; nanomaterials for bioanalysis; photonic biosensing; screening systems; bioreagents development
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite contributions to this Special Issue on optical label-free biosensing. This innovative field lies at the intersection of chemistry, optics, biology, nanoscience, engineering, and materials science, and offers new and unique solutions to society's analytical needs.
The scope of this Special Issue is broad, ranging from fundamental studies at the proof-of-concept level to novel applications of label-free technologies in relevant scenarios. Our goal is to bring together the latest advancements in consolidated transduction systems (SPR, interferometry, SERS, fiber-based sensors, etc.) while also encouraging contributions on emerging materials and biosensing principles.
We welcome full-length research papers, short communications featuring groundbreaking preliminary results or significant findings, as well as review papers that comprehensively cover relevant aspects of optical label-free biosensing.
We look forward to your participation in this Special Issue.
Dr. Miquel Avella-Oliver
Prof. Dr. Ángel Maquieira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- label-free
- biosensor
- plasmonics
- photonics
- nanostructure
- transduction
- point-of-care
- lab-on-a-chip
- wearable
- SPR
- SERS
- waveguiding
- interferometry
- immunosensor
- DNA biosensors
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