Advanced Polymeric Materials for Sensing
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart and Functional Polymers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 July 2023) | Viewed by 2405
Special Issue Editors
Interests: polymers; sensors, biosensors; advanced materials; nanostructures; thin films; biassay development; plasmonics; solar cells
Interests: smart polymers and composite materials; sensor technology; vibration energy harvesting; soft composite materials; measurement science and technology; magnetic materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last decade, the polymeric based-materials have become great candidates for sensing applications in the field of homeland security, human health, food analysis, or environmental monitoring, mainly due to their unique physico-chemical properties. Furthermore, the polymers offer many other advantages when used as active functional blocks within various sensing devices: their synthesis methods are simple, they are relatively low-cost materials, and they can be functionalized as well as deposited onto different substrates. Moreover, the chemical structure of the polymer-based materials can be easily modified to boost their sensitivity, biocompatibility, endurance to degradation and flexibility.
This Special Issue represents a dissemination forum for most recent discoveries and progress in all fields of science dealing with polymer materials used within any sensing application scenario. Reviews, regular research articles and short communications on this topic are all welcomed.
Contributions on the following topics, but not limited to, are encouraged:
- Development of sensing technologies based on different kinds of polymeric materials;
- Innovative synthesis approaches of polymers for sensing and biosensing;
- Examination of structural, chemical, morphological, optical, electrical and other properties of polymers important for sensing applications;
- Theoretical studies aiming to predict various properties of polymers used as functional constitutive elements within sensing and biosensing devices.
Dr. Iulia Antohe
Prof. Dr. Mikhail Shamonin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polymers
- natural polymers
- synthetic polymers
- conducting polymers
- biopolymers
- polymer-based composites
- molecularly imprinted polymers
- polymeric nanostructures
- polymeric materials
- polymeric self-sensing materials
- functional polymeric surfaces
- hydrogels
- superabsorbent polymers
- polymer films in sensing applications
