Electrochemical and Fluorescent Biosensors: Novel Strategies, Methods, and Materials II

Dear Colleagues,

A typical biosensor consists of two basic functional units: a biological receptor and a transducer. The receptor (for example, an enzyme, antibody or DNA) is responsible for the selective recognition of the target analyte, while the transducer translates this biorecognition event into a chemical or physical signal. Recently, artificial materials, such as molecularly imprinted polymers, aptamers, nanomaterials, nanoenzymes, and peptide nucleic acids (PNAs), have also been used as recognition elements. Electrochemical and fluorescent biosensors have received a great deal of attention owing to their advantages in in vivo analysis, wearable applications, real-time monitoring, and quantitative imaging.

Contributions to this Special Issue should cover advances in electrochemical and fluorescent biosensors in terms of novel strategies, methods, and materials. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. Biosensors with electrochemical, electrochemiluminescent, and fluorescent transduction for healthcare monitoring, biomedical applications, disease diagnostics, environmental monitoring, food analysis, and online control in industrial processes, etc.;
2. Novel materials for the efficient immobilization of biological molecules; for example, two-dimensional graphene oxide containing abundant oxo-functionalities and sp²domains allows for interaction/anchoring with a wide range of biomolecules;
3. Biosensors based on artificial recognition elements (for example, nanomaterials, nanoenzymes, etc.);
4. Novel recognition elements developed for biosensors;
5. Novel strategies for biofouling-resistant performance;
6. Wearable noninvasive or invasive biosensors;
7. Miniaturized biosensors and microscale and nanoscale biosensors;
8. Signal amplification strategies for biosensors;
9. Biosensors extended to devices which utilize biological elements and/or biochemical reactions to detect chemical or biological molecules;
10. Nonenzymatic electrochemical sensors for the detection of biological molecules with high selectivity.

Dr. Baiqing Yuan
Dr. Lin Liu
Dr. Lijun Zhao
Dr. Daojun Zhang
Dr. Dong Liu
Guest Editors

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• biosensors
• electrochemical
• electrochemiluminescent
• fluorescent
• antifouling
• nano enzyme
• wearable biosensors
• miniaturized biosensors
• nanoscale biosensors
• signal amplification