Nanomaterials for Chemical Sensing Technologies
Call for Papers
Current trend in the solid-state sensing technology is the development of nanomaterials and nanostructures with novel functionalities and innovative properties at the nanoscale for high-performance chemical sensing.
The actual state of the nanotechnology has reached mature advancements for nanomaterials processing including functionalizations, nanocomposites, hybridization of materials, nanoparticles, nanowires, nanotubes, nanofibers, nanobelts, nanowalls, and sensing nanodevices to fabricate chemical sensors and sensor arrays with controlled characteristics and tuned properties at the nanoscale level.
In this direction, great efforts in the ongoing research have been exerted to fabricate sensors with advanced sensing nanostructures and high-resolution transducers coupled to proper electronic interfaces and new algorithms of pattern recognition and signal processing.
The key role for high-performance sensors is the engineering of nanomaterials with novel sensing properties for chemical sensing nanodevices and emerging transducers to develop sensor systems at high sensitivity and high specificity.
This special issue of the Journal of Sensors will be completely devoted to nanomaterials for chemical sensing technologies. This issue openly calls for perspective and original contributions in the field of sensor nanomaterials and chemical sensor technology. The issue accepts contributions to cover the full range of sensors from the theory, basic properties, modelling, design, fabrication, processing, integration, and characterization to the applications of the chemical sensors.
We invite the submission of the manuscripts related to the fundamental and applied aspects for the chemical sensory nanomaterials, their novel functionalities, and applications.
Topics of interest include, but not limited to:
- Sensor nanomaterials
- Nanostructures and thin films for gas sensors
- Carbon nanotubes chemical sensors
- Metal oxides nanowires for gas sensors
- Hybrid materials for chemical sensors
- Nanocomposites and functionalizations for sensing devices
- Nanostructured materials for gas sensors
- Mass-sensitive sensors: SAW, TFBAR, QCM
- Gas sensors and chemiresistors
- Nanosensors
- Gas sensor arrays
- Pattern recognition and signal processing
- Modelling for chemical sensors
- Applications of sensor systems
Authors should follow the Journal of Sensors manuscript format described at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/js/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:
| Manuscript Due | November 1, 2008 |
| First Round of Reviews | February 1, 2009 |
| Publication Date | May 1, 2009 |
Guest Editors
- Michele Penza, Department of Physical Technologies and New Materials, Research Center Brindisi, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy, and the Environment (ENEA), 72100 Brindisi, Italy
- Giorgio Sberveglieri, Department of Chemistry and Physics for Engineering and Materials, University of Brescia, 25133 Brescia, Italy
- Wojtek Wlodarski, School of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne 3001, Australia
- Yongxiang Li, State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
