Plasmonic materials and devices have been widely used for analysis of various biomolecular interactions offering label free and real-time detection of small biomolecules at ultralow concentrations. Plasmonic optical sensors find widespread applications ranging from the detection of various biochemical compounds, cells, bacteria, and viruses in disease diagnosis, environmental control, and monitoring to food analysis. There has been significant progress leading to the development of biosensing platforms based on technologies like surface plasmon resonance (SPR), localized SPR (LSPR), fiber optic SPR (FO-SPR), surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), surface-enhanced fluorescence (SEF), and total internal reflection (TIR). However, pathogens constantly mutate and erupt in new forms. Recently, the outbreak of several deadly viruses and food borne pathogens has been witnessed, which demands for further advancement in biosensing technologies. The future improvements may be focused on the miniaturization of instruments to handheld devices and sensor integration in the point-of-care platforms, simplification of biofunctionalization and analysis techniques enabling direct target detection, performance improvement using novel 2D materials, etc.
Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) offers a powerful and matured technique for applications in diverse fields of molecular biology and biotechnology, particularly for monitoring the dynamics and affinity of biomolecular interactions. Notably, the future of SPR-based biosensing techniques lies entirely in developing more accurate and efficient strategies that lead to the design of novel miniaturized chemical chips. In this issue, we would like to explore the integrations of advanced molecular biochemistry, materials science, optoelectronics, and photonics methodologies to enhance the performance of SPR biosensors. In addition, we aim to review the trajectories in developing flexible, reproducible, and efficient SERS substrates and project the future direction of biosensing innovations. These two goals will cohere with the proposed Research Topic entitled “Emerging Trends in Plasmonic Biosensors”.
Original research articles, methods, mini reviews, reviews and perspective articles relevant to the applications of SPR based strategies in biosensing are solicited. The scope of this Research Topic includes, but is not limited to, the following fields:
• Sensing of any biomolecular analytes using plasmonic phenomena, including propagating surface plasmon resonance (SPR), localized SPR, surface-enhanced Raman scattering, surface-enhanced fluorescence and surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy etc.
• Artificial intelligence, and machine learning application in plasmonic biosensing
• Low cost plasmonic biosensing platform
• Novel material in plasmonic biosensing
Keywords:
Plasmonic, Biosensor, Nanomaterial, Surface Plasmon Resonance, Diagnosis
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Plasmonic materials and devices have been widely used for analysis of various biomolecular interactions offering label free and real-time detection of small biomolecules at ultralow concentrations. Plasmonic optical sensors find widespread applications ranging from the detection of various biochemical compounds, cells, bacteria, and viruses in disease diagnosis, environmental control, and monitoring to food analysis. There has been significant progress leading to the development of biosensing platforms based on technologies like surface plasmon resonance (SPR), localized SPR (LSPR), fiber optic SPR (FO-SPR), surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), surface-enhanced fluorescence (SEF), and total internal reflection (TIR). However, pathogens constantly mutate and erupt in new forms. Recently, the outbreak of several deadly viruses and food borne pathogens has been witnessed, which demands for further advancement in biosensing technologies. The future improvements may be focused on the miniaturization of instruments to handheld devices and sensor integration in the point-of-care platforms, simplification of biofunctionalization and analysis techniques enabling direct target detection, performance improvement using novel 2D materials, etc.
Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) offers a powerful and matured technique for applications in diverse fields of molecular biology and biotechnology, particularly for monitoring the dynamics and affinity of biomolecular interactions. Notably, the future of SPR-based biosensing techniques lies entirely in developing more accurate and efficient strategies that lead to the design of novel miniaturized chemical chips. In this issue, we would like to explore the integrations of advanced molecular biochemistry, materials science, optoelectronics, and photonics methodologies to enhance the performance of SPR biosensors. In addition, we aim to review the trajectories in developing flexible, reproducible, and efficient SERS substrates and project the future direction of biosensing innovations. These two goals will cohere with the proposed Research Topic entitled “Emerging Trends in Plasmonic Biosensors”.
Original research articles, methods, mini reviews, reviews and perspective articles relevant to the applications of SPR based strategies in biosensing are solicited. The scope of this Research Topic includes, but is not limited to, the following fields:
• Sensing of any biomolecular analytes using plasmonic phenomena, including propagating surface plasmon resonance (SPR), localized SPR, surface-enhanced Raman scattering, surface-enhanced fluorescence and surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy etc.
• Artificial intelligence, and machine learning application in plasmonic biosensing
• Low cost plasmonic biosensing platform
• Novel material in plasmonic biosensing
Keywords:
Plasmonic, Biosensor, Nanomaterial, Surface Plasmon Resonance, Diagnosis
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.