Summary
Sensitive
and selective determination of various analyzes using photoactive
nanomaterials will be covered in this special issue. In recent years,
several types of photoactive nanomaterials have been developed and
applied to ultrasensitive determination of trace amount of
analytes. In general, these nanomaterials are used as a signaling
reagent or a sample carrier. Compared to traditional signaling
reagents, the photoactive nanomaterials provide excellent signaling
characteristics and high photostability for a wide variety of analyses.
In this special issue different photoactive nanomaterials and their
applications in ultrasensitive determination will be described. These
include: quantum dots, PEBBLEs, polymer fluorescent nanoparticles,
silica fluorescent nanoparticles, gold nanoparticles and silver
nanoparticles etc.
Keywords
Luminescent Nanoparticles, Quantum Dots, Gold Nanoparticles, Silver Nanoparticles, Luminescence, Ultrasensitive Determination
Published Papers
Ewa M. Goldys * and Fang Xie
Department of Physics Macquarie University, North Ryde 2109, NSW, Australia
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: goldys@ics.mq.edu.au
Received: 15 January 2008 / Accepted: 30 January 2008 / Published: 8 February 2008
Review: Metallic Nanomaterials for Sensitivity Enhancement of Fluorescence Detection
Sensors 2008, 8, 886-896 (PDF format, 917 K)
Carrie L. Amiot 1, Shuping Xu 1, Song Liang 1, Lingyun Pan 2 and Julia Xiaojun Zhao 1,*
1 Department of Chemistry, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202, USA
2 Coherent Light and Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, College of Physics, Jilin University Changchun, Jilin, 130031 China
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail: jzhao (a) chem.und.edu
Received: 25 March 2008 / Accepted: 23 April 2008 / Published: 8 May 2008
Review: Near-Infrared Fluorescent Materials for Sensing of Biological Targets
Sensors 2008, 8, 3082-3105 (PDF format, K) DOI: 10.3390/s8053082
Submission
Sensors (http://www.mdpi.org/sensors/) is a highly rated journal with a 1.573 impact factor in 2007.
Sensors is indexed and abstracted very quickly by Chemical Abstracts, Analytical Abstracts, Science Citation Index Expanded, Chemistry Citation Index, Scopus and Google Scholar.
All papers should be submitted to sensors@mdpi.org with copy to the guest editors. To be published continuously until the deadline and papers will be listed together at the special websites.
Please visit the instructions for authors at http://www.mdpi.org/sensors/publguid.htm before submitting a paper. Open Access publication fees are 1050 CHF per paper. English correction fees (250 CHF) will be added in certain cases (1300 CHF per paper for those papers that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections.).
Mr. Matthias Burkhalter
Assistant Editor
Sensors journal
Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
Kandererstrasse 25
CH-4057 Basel Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 (office), Fax +41 61 302 89 18
E-mail: sensors@mdpi.org,
http://www.mdpi.org/sensors/
Keywords
Luminescent Nanoparticles, Quantum Dots, Gold Nanoparticles, Silver Nanoparticles, Luminescence, Ultrasensitive Determination
Published Papers
Ewa M. Goldys * and Fang Xie
Department of Physics Macquarie University, North Ryde 2109, NSW, Australia
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: goldys@ics.mq.edu.au
Received: 15 January 2008 / Accepted: 30 January 2008 / Published: 8 February 2008
Review: Metallic Nanomaterials for Sensitivity Enhancement of Fluorescence Detection
Sensors 2008, 8, 886-896 (PDF format, 917 K)
Carrie L. Amiot 1, Shuping Xu 1, Song Liang 1, Lingyun Pan 2 and Julia Xiaojun Zhao 1,*
1 Department of Chemistry, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202, USA
2 Coherent Light and Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy Laboratory, College of Physics, Jilin University Changchun, Jilin, 130031 China
* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-mail: jzhao (a) chem.und.edu
Received: 25 March 2008 / Accepted: 23 April 2008 / Published: 8 May 2008
Review: Near-Infrared Fluorescent Materials for Sensing of Biological Targets
Sensors 2008, 8, 3082-3105 (PDF format, K) DOI: 10.3390/s8053082
Submission
Sensors (http://www.mdpi.org/sensors/) is a highly rated journal with a 1.573 impact factor in 2007.
Sensors is indexed and abstracted very quickly by Chemical Abstracts, Analytical Abstracts, Science Citation Index Expanded, Chemistry Citation Index, Scopus and Google Scholar.
All papers should be submitted to sensors@mdpi.org with copy to the guest editors. To be published continuously until the deadline and papers will be listed together at the special websites.
Please visit the instructions for authors at http://www.mdpi.org/sensors/publguid.htm before submitting a paper. Open Access publication fees are 1050 CHF per paper. English correction fees (250 CHF) will be added in certain cases (1300 CHF per paper for those papers that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections.).
Mr. Matthias Burkhalter
Assistant Editor
Sensors journal
Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
Kandererstrasse 25
CH-4057 Basel Switzerland
Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 (office), Fax +41 61 302 89 18
E-mail: sensors@mdpi.org,
http://www.mdpi.org/sensors/
MDPI - Matthias Burkhalter - 16 July 2008