About this Research Topic
Nowadays, nanomaterials are considered a pivotal tool for different fields such as textiles, energy, environment, electronics, photonics, food, agriculture, biomedicine, or health care. Recent progresses in the nanotechnology field revealed the uses of nanomaterials for developing control systems to ensure food quality and safety. Nanomaterials, while used in (bio)detection systems, have shown to be extremely valuable to improve the analytical performance of conventional/laboratory methods and move forward biosensing technology. The usage of nanomaterials has been widely spread over the last few years mainly thanks to the great advantages that they offer in the development of conceptually new biosensors or improving the existing ones.
Over the last few years, new nanoparticle preparation methods have emerged by replacing the usual reagents with different “bio” alternatives, in different conditions.
As the topic of nanomaterials biosynthesis is in full development, new and exciting scientific advances are recorded all over the world. The goal of the Research Topic is to present such findings, as the potential subjects considered are:
- Obtaining and characterization of mono and bi metallic nanostructures using the “green” approach of biosynthesis (using living organisms - bacteria, fungi, moulds, viruses or microalgae, their components, or extracts; plant extracts or biomolecules (enzymes, peptides, polysaccharides, and poly-amino acids)
- development of sensing platforms with high selectivity and specificity (for example, for the detection of microbial pathogens from food matrixes).
The aim of the current Research Topic is to cover promising, recent, and novel research trends in the biosynthesized nanostructures use as biosensor platforms. Areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to:
• Evaluation of the possibilities of obtaining biosynthesized nanostructures for sensors application from different plats
• Development of the technology for obtaining biosynthesized nanostructures with controlled properties and morphologies
• Synthesis and characterization of biosynthesized nanomaterials
• Implementation of the nanostructures for selected sensor platform
• Optimization of working parameters for the synthesis of nanostructures
• Demonstration of the efficiency of the proposed materials as sensing platforms
Over the last few years, new nanoparticle preparation methods have emerged by replacing the usual reagents with different “bio” alternatives, in different conditions.
As the topic of nanomaterials biosynthesis is in full development, new and exciting scientific advances are recorded all over the world. The goal of the Research Topic is to present such findings, as the potential subjects considered are:
- Obtaining and characterization of mono and bi metallic nanostructures using the “green” approach of biosynthesis (using living organisms - bacteria, fungi, moulds, viruses or microalgae, their components, or extracts; plant extracts or biomolecules (enzymes, peptides, polysaccharides, and poly-amino acids)
- development of sensing platforms with high selectivity and specificity (for example, for the detection of microbial pathogens from food matrixes).
The aim of the current Research Topic is to cover promising, recent, and novel research trends in the biosynthesized nanostructures use as biosensor platforms. Areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include, but are not limited to:
• Evaluation of the possibilities of obtaining biosynthesized nanostructures for sensors application from different plats
• Development of the technology for obtaining biosynthesized nanostructures with controlled properties and morphologies
• Synthesis and characterization of biosynthesized nanomaterials
• Implementation of the nanostructures for selected sensor platform
• Optimization of working parameters for the synthesis of nanostructures
• Demonstration of the efficiency of the proposed materials as sensing platforms
Keywords: biosensors, nanomaterials, nanotechnology, biodetection, biosensing technology
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