Biochips and Biosensors for Health-Care and Diagnostics
A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensor and Bioelectronic Devices".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 September 2024 | Viewed by 5271
Special Issue Editors
Interests: micro/nanofabrication; bioprinting; biomedical microdevices; microelectromechanical systems; microfluidics; medical and environmental sensors; smart textiles; biomaterials; artificial organs
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: biomedical devices; electrochemical sensors; chemiresistive sensors; water quality monitoring; solid-state sensors; rapid prototyping; healthcare monitoring
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Aging populations and infectious diseases have led to an increase in demand for point-of-care (POC) devices. Advances in microfluidics enable miniaturization and multiple biochips have been developed for the analytical detection and quantification of analytes as well as the delivery of drugs for healthcare and medical diagnostic applications.
These biochip devices use various sensing principles, including colorimetric, fluorescence, electrochemical or other novel approaches. They have conventionally been fabricated using lithography, a method which is expensive but precise. More recently, multiple rapid fabrication methods, such as xurography and 3D printing, have emerged to scale up the mass production of these devices. In addition, these devices are used in diverse applications including biosensing, on-chip separation, quantification of analytes from complex biofluids and drug discovery and delivery.
In this Special Issue, we invite authors to contribute papers focused on the design and development of novel biochips and biosensors for healthcare and medical diagnostics applications, addressing topics such as the rapid prototyping of these biochips and biosensors using newly emerging methods including xurography and 3D printing. We are also interested in covering newly emerging methods that
(1) Quantify medical diagnostics and healthcare-related analytes;
(2) Propose separation devices for samples such as nucleic acids, proteins, metabolites, exosomes and other macrostructures;
(3) Develop devices for drug discovery, including organ on-chip devices;
(4) Address sample pre-processing, including devices specialized to handle various biofluids;
(5) Present devices for drug delivery and in vivo implantation.
We encourage the submission of both research articles and review articles.
Prof. Dr. P. Ravi Selvaganapathy
Dr. Vinay Patel
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- lab-on-chip
- biosensors
- rapid fabrication
- xurography
- 3D printing
- electrochemical biosensors
- colorimetric biosensors
- fluorescence biosensors
- biochip fabrication
- drug delivery devices
- in vivo implants
- separation devices
- organ-on-chip
- sample pre-processing
- biofluid handling
