Salient Features of Functional Polymers and Their Composites with Nanomaterials in Chemosensors and Biosensors
A special issue of Journal of Functional Biomaterials (ISSN 2079-4983).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 5723
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biosensors; immunoassays; functional biomaterials; nanocomposites; nanopolymers
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Interests: COVID-19; biosensing; immunoassays; PCR; spike (S) protein; point of care (POC)
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Natural or synthetic polymers have played an important role in the development of chemosensors and biosensors due to their commercial availability at a low cost or ease of synthesis. Conducting polymers, e.g., pyrrole and polyaniline, serve as biocompatible matrices for the immobilization of biorecognition elements and impart detection selectivity and sensitivity. Nonconductive polymers, including chitin, chitosan, cellulose, dextran, and polystyrene, have also attracted considerable interest in their function as support matrices for enzymes, antibodies, DNA, etc. Bioconjugation of the amino-receptor with carboxylated dextran is a popular example. Carbon nanotubes, graphene, carbon dots, quantum dots, and metal nanoparticles form nanocomposites with conducting or nonconducting polymers to endow high electrical conductivity, effective surface area, and fast electron transfer rate. The combination of graphene and carbon nanotubes, in the form of 3D structures in polymers, represents a very interesting strategy to fabricate efficient, sensitive, and selective devices. Novel sensors can be constructed using sol-gel, ionic liquids, molecularly imprinted polymers, etc., within polymer nanocomposite matrices.
This Special Issue calls for papers that highlight the salient features of polymers together with nanomaterials to enhance speed, sensitivity, selectivity, and versatility of sensing/biosensing platforms. Nanocomposites prepared from polymers with carbon nanomaterials and metallic nanoparticles are opening up an emerging research area due to their excellent analytical performance.
Prof. Dr. John H. T. Luong
Prof. Dr. Bansi Dhar Malhotra
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- conducting polymers
- nonconducting polymers
- biopolymers
- carbon nanotubes
- graphene
- carbon dots
- quantum dots
- metal nanoparticles
- biosensors
- chemosensors
