Nanowires for Sensing: Fundamental Mechanisms, Devices, and Prospects

Call for Papers

In the last decade, nanowires and other 1D nanostructures have emerged as potential components suitable to be integrated in devices specially designed for sensing applications such as chemical sensing, bio sensing or photodetection. Their use in solid-state sensing technologies has been demonstrated to be very promising due to the novel properties and functionalities derived from their high surface-to-volume ratio, controlled surface interactions, efficient nanoscale transduction mechanisms, and quantum confinement effects.

To date, recent advances in synthesis, processing, manipulation, nanofabrication, and electrical characterization of nanomaterials are showing the feasibility to obtain sensors based on one single 1D nanostructure with well-controlled properties, which can be controllably tuned with high precision, thus taking advantage of the phenomena characteristics of the nanoscale.

This special issue of the Journal of Sensors will be completely devoted to sensing devices based on 1D nanomaterials. The issue accepts contributions to cover the full range of sensing mechanisms, basic properties, modeling, design, fabrication, processing, integration, and characterization including their applications.

We invite the submission of the manuscripts related to the fundamental and applied aspects for the sensory nanowires, their novel functionalities, and applications.

Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

  • Novel 1D nanomaterials with impact in nanosensing
  • Functionalization for new sensing properties
  • Modeling for nanosensors and transduction mechanisms at nanoscale
  • Nanodevices fabrication, manipulation, and integration processes
  • Nanometrology techniques for sensor characterization
  • Novel bio-nano-sensors
  • Gas and other chemical nanosensors
  • Photodetectors and other physical nanosensors
  • Nanosensor arrays and interfacing
  • Novel applications of nanosensor systems

Authors should follow the Journal of Sensors manuscript format described at the journal site 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 DueMay 1, 2009
First Round of ReviewsAugust 1, 2009
Publication DateNovember 1, 2009

Guest Editors

  • Joan Ramon Morante, Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (IN2UB), University of Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
  • Sanjay Mathur, Department of Nanocrystalline Materials and Thin Film Systems, Leibniz Institute of New Materials, 66123 Saarbruecken, Germany; Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Cologne, 50923 Cologne, Germany
  • Jia Grace Lu, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0484, USA
  • Francisco Hernandez-Ramirez, Electronic Nanosystems S.L., Spain
  • Joan Daniel Prades, Electronic Materials and Engineering Lab (EME) and Center of Advanced Materials for Energy (XaRMAE), Government of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain