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Peer review is an essential part in the publication process, ensuring that Chemosensors maintains high quality standards for its published papers. In 2017, a total of 32 papers were published in the journal.[...]

In this review, the latest research on wearable chemosensors is presented. In focus are the results from open literature, mainly from the last three years. The progress in wearable chemosensors is presented with attention drawn to the measuring techn...

Molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP)-based luminescent chemosensors combine the advantages of the highly specific molecular recognition of the imprinting sites and the high sensitivity with the luminescence detection. These advantages have drawn great...

Pyrazine (1,4-diazine) and its annulated derivatives are promising platforms for colorimetric and fluorescent chemosensors of biologically and environmentally relevant metal cations, including Hg²⁺, Cu²⁺, Zn²⁺, Pb²⁺, Fe³⁺, Al³⁺, Co²⁺, Ni²⁺, Ag⁺ and C...

The interactions between chemosensors, 3-amino-5-(4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1H-indol-2-yl)isoxazole-4-carboxamide (AIC) derivatives, and different anions (F⁻ Cl⁻, Br⁻, AcO⁻, and H₂PO₄⁻) have been theoretically investigated using DFT approaches. It turned ou...

Chemosensors based on traditional fluorescent dyes have always contributed to the development of chemical sensor areas. In this review, the rhodamine-based chemosensors’ improvements and applications from 2018 to 2022 are discussed, mainly focu...

Many organophosphorus (OP) based compounds are highly toxic and powerful inhibitors of cholinesterases that generate serious environmental and human health concerns. Organothiophosphates with a thiophosphoryl (P=S) functional group constitute a broad...

Chemosensors have attracted considerable attention among the numerous strategies for detecting organic molecules in water. A turn-off mechanism was previously employed for the construction of a cyclodextrin (CD) chemosensor. This mechanism is greatly...

Cost-effective chemosensors have become an indispensable tool for sustainable monitoring in food safety and processing, where there is an urgent need for affordable, efficient, and real-time analytical solutions. This review discusses recent advances...

Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) is a highly important and attractive conducting polymer as well as commercially available in organic electronics, including electrochemical and electronic chemosensors, due to its uni...

Anionic species are one of the most common pollutants in residual and freshwaters. The presence of anthropogenic anions in water drastically increases the toxicity to living beings. Here, we report the preparation of a new optical active material bas...

Hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂), a common oxidant present in the environment, food, and biological systems, has wide-ranging applications. While H₂O₂ is generally considered non-toxic, prolonged or repeated exposure to high concentrations can be harmful, ma...

Colorimetric chemosensors are widely employed for in-field analysis to detect transition metal ions in real-time with the naked eye. Colorimetric chemosensors have attracted considerable attention because they can conveniently provide quantitative an...

Perylene imide (PI) molecules and materials have been extensively studied for optical chemical sensors, particularly those based on fluorescence and colorimetric mode, taking advantage of the unique features of PIs such as structure tunability, good...

Surface fouling remains a critical challenge for medical devices and chemosensor systems operating in biological environments, where nonspecific adsorption of proteins, cells, and microorganisms can lead to signal drift, reduced sensitivity, and shor...

In recent decades, concerns about increasing biological and environmental contamination have necessitated the development of chemosensors with high selectivity, sensitivity, and cost-effectiveness. In principle, the sensing performance can be affecte...

In the present work, several coumarin-3-carboxamides with different azacrown ether moieties were designed and tested as potential luminescent sensors for metal ions. The derivative containing a 1-aza-15-crown-5 as a metal chelating group was found to...

Heavy and transition metal (HTM) ions have significant harmful effects on the physical environment and play crucial roles in biological systems; hence, it is crucial to accurately identify and quantify any trace pollution. Molecular sensors which are...

Toxic cations, including heavy metals, pose significant environmental and health risks, necessitating the development of reliable detection methods. This review investigates the techniques and approaches used to strengthen the sensitivity and selecti...

The contaminations of Fusarium mycotoxins in grains and related products, and the exposure in human body are considerable concerns in food safety and human health worldwide. The common Fusarium mycotoxins include fumonisins, T-2 toxin, deoxynivalenol...

Chitosan is a biopolymer derived from chitin. It is a non-toxic, biocompatible, bioactive, and biodegradable polymer. Due to its properties, chitosan has found applications in several and different fields such as agriculture, food industry, medicine,...

The precise control and monitoring of pH values remain critical for many chemical, physiological and biological processes. Perylene diimide (PDI)-based molecules and materials exhibit excellent thermal, chemical and photochemical stability, unique UV...

Palladium has wide application in different contexts and, as a consequence, high levels of palladium in the environment have been reported, representing a risk to human health. Considering the interest to develop more selective and sensitive chemose...

Hg²⁺ ions can accumulate in the natural environment and in organisms, where they cause damage to the central nervous system. Therefore, the detection of Hg²⁺ ions is essential for monitoring environmental contamination and human health. Herein, we de...

Nanocomposite materials have seen increased adoption in a wide range of applications, with toxic gas detection, such as carbon monoxide (CO), being of particular interest for this review. Such sensors are usually characterized by the presence of CO a...

Detection of an environmental contaminant requires the use of expensive measurement equipment, which limits the realization of in situ tests because of their high cost, their limited portability, or the extended time duration of the tests. This paper...

Macrocycles play a crucial role in supramolecular chemistry and the family of macrocyclic arenes represents one of the most important types of hosts. Among them, calixarenes, resorcinarenes and pillararenes are the most commonly encountered macrocycl...

Heterocyclic aldehydes show a variety of optical properties and the versatility of their reactivity allows them to yield a wide range of more complex compounds, with application in areas such as medicinal, materials and supramolecular chemistry. The...

Fluorescent chemosensors are increasingly becoming relevant in recognition chemistry due to their sensitivity, selectivity, fast response time, real-time detection capability, and low cost. Boronic acids have been reported for the recognition of myco...

This work provides a summary of our results in the area of the experimental development of detection paper for the detection of liquid phase chemical warfare agents (drops, aerosol), the presence of which is demonstrated by the development of charact...

The discovery of the aggregation-induced emission (AIE) phenomenon in the early 2000s not only has overcome persistent challenges caused by traditional aggregation-caused quenching (ACQ), but also has brought about new opportunities for the developme...

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Bearing in mind the interest in the development and application of amino acids/peptides as bioinspired systems for sensing, a series of new phenylalanine derivatives bearing thiosemicarbazone and hydrazone units at the side chain were synthesised and...

Taking advantage of high porosity, large surface area, tunable nanostructures and ease of functionalization, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been popularly applied in different fields, including adsorption and separation, heterogeneous catalysis...

The increasing accumulation of pharmaceutical residues in water environments poses serious threats concerning environmental safety and public health, mainly due to their tenacity, continuous bio-activity, and resistance to traditional wastewater trea...

In this study, we report a novel and facile colorimetric assay based on silver citrate-coated Au@Ag nanoparticles (Au@AgNPs) as a chemosensor for the naked-eye detection of morphine (MOR). The developed optical sensing approach relied on the aggregat...

The necessity for complex functionality materials is increasing due to the emergence of high-tech technologies and the deepening needs of B-to-B companies in the industry. Study on advanced multifunctional materials is also increasing due to interest...

This paper presents the results of experiments aiming for the detection and differentiation of selected nerve agents of the Novichok and V-group using simple strip detectors containing colourimetric indicator, specifically chemosensor Nile Blue A, im...

The synthesis of four symmetrical compounds containing urea/thiourea and anthracene/nitrobenzene groups was optimized. N,N’-Di((anthracen-9-yl)-methylene) thio-carbonohydrazide showed sensitive and selective binding ability for acetate ion among the...

2,8-Dithia-5-aza-2,6-pyridinophane (L1) has been used as a receptor unit in the construction of the conjugated redox chemosensor 5-ferrocenylmethyl-2,8-dithia-5-aza-2,6-pyridinophane (L3). In order to further explore the coordination chemistry of L1,...

In recent years, in the field of bioanalysis, the use of saliva as a biological fluid for the determination of biomarkers has been proposed. Saliva analysis stands out for its simplicity and non-invasive sampling. This paper proposes a method for the...

Magnesium ions (Mg²⁺) play an important role in mammalian cell function; however, relatively little is known about the mechanisms of Mg²⁺ regulation in disease states. An advance in this field would come from the development of selective, reversible...

This article provides an overview on the broad topic of biogenic amines (BAs) that are a persistent concern in the context of food quality and safety. They emerge mainly from the decomposition of amino acids in protein-rich food due to enzymes excret...

The development of flexible electronic technology has led to significant advancements in wearable sensors. In the past decades, wearable chemosensors have received much attention from researchers worldwide due to their high portability, flexibility,...