About this Research Topic
The Research Topic on Materials for sensing applications is focused on the design, synthesis, characterization and modeling of new materials and structures to be used in sensors for detecting the chemical environment.
Sensors are ubiquitous devices, present practically everywhere including buildings and other infrastructure: transportation, telecommunications, healthcare, industrial, and agricultural production, to just mention a few. Advanced sensors collect and feed reliable chemical data from surrounding media to control systems, thus enabling response to the stimuli and facilitating smart operation of devices.
New materials, such as nanostructured and hierarchical carbons, metals and alloys, metal oxides and chalcogenides, as well as bio- and synthetic polymers, among many others on the horizon, often motivate scientists and engineers to intuitively test and compare them to existing sensors of different kinds, or to construct novel types of devices not possible before. On the other hand, computational methods offer another approach by predicting potential interactions between matter and external stimuli, thus helping in engineering new materials for specific applications. Either way, emerging materials necessitate revisiting the science and technology of sensors and updating the state-of-the-art in the field.
Accordingly, in this thematic collection for Frontiers in Materials, we invite submissions of original papers, mini reviews, and commentaries that introduce as well as promote a better understanding of emerging materials, methodologies, and devices used in chemical, electrochemical, biochemical sensing. As the collection is under the specialty section for Translational Materials Science, submitted papers shall highlight the translational steps from academia to industry, such as robust and/or low cost integration of functional materials, compatibility/scalability with industrial fabrication, quality control, proof-of-concept studies with next-generation sensing materials, or use of renewables.
Sensors are ubiquitous devices, present practically everywhere including buildings and other infrastructure: transportation, telecommunications, healthcare, industrial, and agricultural production, to just mention a few. Advanced sensors collect and feed reliable chemical data from surrounding media to control systems, thus enabling response to the stimuli and facilitating smart operation of devices.
New materials, such as nanostructured and hierarchical carbons, metals and alloys, metal oxides and chalcogenides, as well as bio- and synthetic polymers, among many others on the horizon, often motivate scientists and engineers to intuitively test and compare them to existing sensors of different kinds, or to construct novel types of devices not possible before. On the other hand, computational methods offer another approach by predicting potential interactions between matter and external stimuli, thus helping in engineering new materials for specific applications. Either way, emerging materials necessitate revisiting the science and technology of sensors and updating the state-of-the-art in the field.
Accordingly, in this thematic collection for Frontiers in Materials, we invite submissions of original papers, mini reviews, and commentaries that introduce as well as promote a better understanding of emerging materials, methodologies, and devices used in chemical, electrochemical, biochemical sensing. As the collection is under the specialty section for Translational Materials Science, submitted papers shall highlight the translational steps from academia to industry, such as robust and/or low cost integration of functional materials, compatibility/scalability with industrial fabrication, quality control, proof-of-concept studies with next-generation sensing materials, or use of renewables.
Keywords: resistive, capacitive, gas ionization and electrochemical sensors, biosensors, surface plasmon enhanced sensors, translational materials science
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