Lab on a Chip Technology for Pathogen Detection and Disease Diagnosis

Dear Colleagues,

The past two years have witnessed the battle between humans and pandemics and the urgency and importance of detecting pathogens rapidly has become clear. The ability to detect disease in the early stages can also result in higher chances of survival. Benefitting from miniaturization and automation, lab-on-a-chip technology is playing an increasingly fundamental role in pathogen detection and disease diagnosis by offering biosensors with higher sensitivity, lower costs, and the potential to be mass-produced.

This Special Issue calls for papers about new sensing mechanisms, new materials, new micro/nanofabrication processes, new devices, and new applications in lab-on-a-chip technology that are helpful for detecting pathogens such as viruses and bacteria, as well as for enabling disease diagnosis via detecting antibodies, DNA, RNA, exosomes, and cells. All original research or review articles are welcome on both the fundamentals, fabrication, and applications of micro/nanoscale biosensors. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

• Micro/nano biosensing;
• Microfluidics and nanofluidic biosensors;
• Micro and nanofabrication;
• Lab-on-a-chip sensors;
• Electrochemical sensing;
• Plasmonic biosensors;
• Physiological signal detection;
• Biosensors for cells, viruses, and bacteria;
• Exosome isolation and detection;
• Flexible and wearable electronic biosensors;
• Novel materials, e.g., 2D metamaterials and liquid metals, for biosensing;
• Field effect transistors (FET) for biosensing.

Dr. Cheng Wang
Dr. Huan Hu
Prof. Dr. Lingqian Chang
Guest Editors

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