Frontiers in Chemical Sensors

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Absorbance-Based Integrated Optical Sensors

   • Mar Puyol, Francisco Villuendas, Carlos Domínguez, Víctor Cadarso, Andreu Llobera, Iñigo Salinas et al.

   Pages 1-44

3. Luminescence Lifetime-Based Imaging of Sensor Arrays for High-Throughput Screening Applications

   • Michael Schäferling

   Pages 45-92

4. Cataluminescence-Based Gas Sensors

   • Masuo Nakagawa, Nobuhiko Yamashita

   Pages 93-132

5. Hollow Waveguide Infrared Spectroscopy and Sensing

   • Christy M. Charlton, Bruce T. Thompson, Boris Mizaikoff

   Pages 133-167

6. Combinatorial Method for Surface-Confined Sensor Design and Fabrication

   • Lourdes Basabe-Desmonts, Rebecca S. Zimmerman, David N. Reinhoudt, Mercedes Crego-Calama

   Pages 169-188

7. The Interplay of Indicator, Support and Analyte in Optical Sensor Layers

   • Guillermo Orellana, Maria C. Moreno-Bondi, David Garcia-Fresnadillo, Maria D. Marazuela

   Pages 189-225

8. Challenges in the Design of Optical DNA Biosensors

   • Melissa Massey, Paul A E Piunno, Ulrich J Krull

   Pages 227-260

9. Gold Nanoparticles in Bioanalytical Assays and Sensors

   • Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh, Aude Vernhet, Zeev Rosenzweig

   Pages 261-277

10. Reverse Symmetry Waveguide for Optical Biosensing

    • Róbert Horváth, Nina Skivesen, Niels B. Larsen, Henrik C. Pedersen

    Pages 279-301

11. Materials for Luminescent Pressure-Sensitive Paint

    • Yumi Takeuchi, Yutaka Amao

    Pages 303-322

12. Optical Sensing of Enantiomers

    • Maura Kasper, Stefan Busche, Günter Gauglitz

    Pages 323-341

13. Optical Sensors for Ions and Protein Based on Digital Color Analysis

    • Yoshio Suzuki, Koji Suzuki

    Pages 343-365

14. Back Matter

    Pages 367-370

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With their similarity to the organs of the most advanced creatures that inhabit the Earth, sensors are regarded as being the “senses of electronics”: arti?cial eyes and ears that are capable of seeing and hearing beyond the range of - man perception; electronic noses and tongues that can recognise odours and ?avours without a lifetime training; touch that is able not only to feel the texture and temperature of the materials but even to discern their chemical compo- tion. Among the world of chemical sensors, optical devices (sometimes termed “optodes”, from the Greek “the optical way”) have reached a prominent place in those areas where the features of light and of the light-matter interaction show their advantage: contactless or long-distance interrogation, detection sensitivity, analyte selectivity, absence of electrical interference or risks, and lack of analyte consumption, to name just a few. The introduction of optical ?bres and integrated optics has added more value to such sensing since now light can be con?ned and readily carried to dif?cult-to-reach locations, higher information density can be transported, indicator dyes can be immobilised at the distal end or the evanescent ?eld for unique chemical and biochemical sensing (including multiplexed and distributed measurements), optical s- sors can now be subject to mass production and novel sensing schemes have been established (interferometric, surface plasmon resonance, ?uorescence energy transfer, supramolecular recognition . . . ).

• Biosensors
• DNA biosensors
• Food Analysis
• High-throughput screening
• Medical Diagnostics
• Optical Sensing
• Optosensing
• Sensors
• particles
• spectroscopy

• Lab. of Applied Photochemistry, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain

  Guillermo Orellana

• Dept. of Analytical Chemistry, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain

  Maria C. Moreno-Bondi

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