Abstract
Nowadays we rely heavily on sensors for a lot of activities in our life. For example, sensors in our mobile phone detect our position, movements, environmental conditions such as humidity level, recognize our intentions and do things on our behalf …
Sensor technology is a vital tool in creating new life-styles compatible with a sustainable society. The field of nanosensors has become one of the most active research areas within the nanoscience community – to give you an idea of just how active, it's enough to look at the huge number of papers published over the past few decades, and this number is constantly increasing, with most of the activities and developments happening in recent years.
Specifically, nanomaterials may offer new working mechanisms, new transduction principles, opening up new possibilities of integration into nanosensors. In the last few years many steps forward have been made. Scientific discoveries have produced technological innovations in new relevant areas such as health, welfare, food and agriculture, nanomedicine, etc. The use of nanosensors will have significant implications regarding healthcare, productivity and the environment.
All researchers involved in this area are continuously proposing new fundamental research together with original and inspired potential applications, including electronics, photonics, energy production, conversion and storage, and electrophysiology (interface with living cells). To boost further advancement, given the interdisciplinarity of the nanosensors field, researchers must collaborate with scientists working in broadly different disciplines such as material scientists, physicists, chemists, and even market developers.
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