Metal-Organic Frameworks Based Advanced Sensors for Pollutant Detection
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 July 2025 | Viewed by 74
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental & biomedical monitoring; air quality & environmental engineering; material engineering; coordination polymers; metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)
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Interests: metal–organic frameworks; nanomaterial; contaminant sensing; pesticides; heavy metal ions; antibiotics; emerging pollutants; food allergens and contaminants; electrochemical sensors; optical sensors; biosensors
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The utility of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) for sensing applications is well known and provides exceptional electrochemical and optical properties. These co-ordination polymers can be used in pristine and hybrid forms with other advanced materials. In general, MOF-based sensing systems can generate sensitive, rapid, and facile sensing signals to achieve the selective determination of diverse analytes with the aid of diverse functionalities. Moreover, they exhibit unprecedented potentials for biosensing through facile bioconjugation on their surface. In this vein, this Special Issue will include original works on MOF-based Advanced Sensors for Pollutant Detection. The main objective of this Special Issue is to collect most recent studies in the field of MOF-based sensors (including pristine and hybrid structures). In particular, our focus will be on research and review articles discussing the development of MOF-based materials with respect to the diverse issues associated with their sensing/biosensing applications.
This Special Issue will present novel, high-quality, and original research articles, review articles, short communications, and letters focused on Metal–Organic Framework-based Advanced Sensors for Pollutant Detection.
Potential possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- MOF-based sensors;
- Porous materials for sensing applications;
- Co-ordination of polymer nanostructures for sensing applications;
- MOF-material-based hybrid materials for sensing applications;
- MOF-material-based affinity biosensors;
- MOF-material-based enzymatic biosensors;
- Sensing mechanisms for MOFs-material-based sensors;
- MOF-material-based signal amplification;
- MOF-material-based sensors for environmental pollutants;
- MOF-material-based sensors for food contaminants;
- MOF-material-based gas sensors;
- MOF-material-based catalysts for sensing applications;
- MOF-material-based electrochemical sensors;
- MOF-material-based optical sensors;
- MOF-material-based fluorescence sensors;
- MOF-material-based colorimetric sensors;
- MOF-material-based paper sensors;
- MOF-material-based spectroscopic sensors;
- MOF-material-based SERS/SPR/QCM sensors;
- MOF-material-based sensors for microbes;
- MOF-materials-based sensors for cells;
- Fabrication and characterization of MOF material-based sensors;
- Bioconjugation of MOF materials for sensor development.
Prof. Dr. Ki-Hyun Kim
Dr. Vanish Kumar
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metal-organic framework
- sensing
- biosensing
- electrochemical
- optical
- bioconjugation
- signal amplification
- pollutant
- contaminant
- pesticide
- heavy metal ion
- metalloid ion
- allergen
- toxin
- emerging pollutant
- antibiotic
- microbe
- fluorescence
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