SELSA-SD: Sensors for the Environment, Life Science, Applications and Sustainable Development

Dear Colleagues,

In 2015, all countries—developed and developing—in a global partnership adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for ending poverty, improving health and education, and reducing inequality, while tackling climate change and environmental protection.

This SELSA-SD Special Issue will provide an opportunity for researchers to publish their original achievements related to education, environment, water quality, and healthcare, all parts of the United Nations SDGs.

The SELSA-SD Special Issue welcomes both original research and review articles that address the following non-exhaustive list of topics:

- Devices: electrochemical sensors, optical sensors, piezoelectric sensors, magnetic sensors, immunosensors, green sensors, mico/nano-sensors, 2D/3D printable sensors, bio-imprinted sensors, remote sensors, wearable sensors, implantable sensors, disposable sensors, wireless sensors, contactless sensors, non-invasive sensors, smart sensors, multitransduction platforms, micro and nano fluidic chips, microarrays, point of care devices, lateral flow assays, field effect transistors, integrated MEMs, etc.

- Analytes concern: molecules (drugs, toxins, pesticides, illicit substances, dyes, endocrine disruptors, glucose and related compounds, biocides, etc.), metal ions in the environment and body fluids, cells, macromolecules (cancer biomarkers, proteins, aptamers, RNA, etc.), counterfeit medicines, viruses (e.g., SARS-CoV2, dengue, malaria, HIV, hepatitis B and C viruses, mosquito-associated viruses), etc.

- Matrices: body fluids, food and beverage samples, waste, rivers and rain waters, samples from water treatment plant and fish farms, landfill, vegetables, road dust, corpes (for forensic medicine), etc.

- Sensing materials: composite materials, colloidal crystals and inverse opals, imprinted polymers, stretchable and implantable materials, antibodies, DNA, enzymes, aptamers, metallic and metal oxide nanoparticles, nano and metamaterials, etc.

- Physical and chemical education of sensors: Sensors technology is progressively being implemented as an integral part of learning at high school levels. This multidisciplinary technology includes several scientific domains such as physics and micro- and nanotechnology (for transducers fabrication), chemistry (for surface modifications), electronic and signal processing, and more recently the Internet of Things (for data management).

Prof. Dr. Mohamed M. Chehimi
Dr. Najla Fourati
Guest Editors

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