Emerging Chemosensors Based on Polymers

Dear Colleagues,

Recognition phenomena are intimately related to life where biomacromolecules are involved, such as DNA, RNA, or proteins. Thus, natural polymers play a pivotal role in life's milestones, where recognition or sensing have a complex nature.

The identification of the key role of feeble chemical interactions on this recognition gave rise to the development of supramolecular chemistry, host/guest and receptor/target interactions in the 1960 decade (the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1987 was awarded jointly to DJ Cram, JM Lehn, and CJ Pedersen "for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific interactions of high selectivity"). This fact initially paved the way for developing low-mass artificial receptors, and lately to the emerging field of stimuli-responsive polymers as sensory materials designed and tuned to respond to physical or chemical stimuli. We can mention, among these stimuli, chemical species (including biomolecules), pH, temperature, and so on, that upon changing in the presence of the intelligent polymers, or contacting or reacting with them, induce a measurable change in shape, solubility, color, fluorescence, electrical of thermal conductivity, etc., where the magnitude of the change can be easily correlated with the measured signal that accompanied said change.

Thus, this Special Issue is focused on the development of sensory polymers as advanced intelligent materials for application in essay detection and quantification of target chemical species with industrial, environmental, civil, and health interests, along with the sensing related to biomedical/biological applications (diagnoses of diseases or biosensors).

We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Prof. Dr. José Miguel García
Dr. Saúl Vallejos Calzada
Dr. Miriam Trigo-López
Guest Editors

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• polymer chemosensors
• polymer biosensors
• colorimetric and fluorescence sensors
• electrochemical sensors
• sensing chemical species
• detecting physical changes
• detection of explosives and chemical warfare agents
• sensing of cations and anionic species
• detection of biomolecules
• detection of biomedical analytes
• sensing of pollutant