Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials Applied to Chemical Sensors and Biosensors: Applications to the Environment, Medicine and Health

The key social issues of health, medicine, the environment, food and safety cannot be addressed without the support of chemical sensors and biosensors, whose performance is constantly improving in terms of reliability and cost, particularly in the production of autonomous devices connected to the Internet.

Obtaining high-intensity transduction signals arising from the interaction of an analyte and a sensor, enabling the identification and dosage of a given compound, requires the selection of suitable physical measurement methods and the creation of structures that react specifically to different types of analyte.

Nanotechnologies and Nanomaterials Applied to Chemical Sensors and Biosensors details recent advances in the field of sensor design using carbon-based nanomaterials (graphene, carbon nanotubes, carbon quantum dots, etc.) and inorganic nanomaterials (metallic nanoparticles, nanocrystals, transition metal dichalcogenides, etc.), as well as a variety of physical sensing methods (electrochemical, piezoelectric, electromagnetic, optic, optoelectronic, etc.).

Pierre Camille Lacaze is former Director of the ITODYS laboratory and former President of the Division de Chimie Physique of the Société chimique de France. He is Professor Emeritus at Paris Cité University, France, and his research focuses on interface reactions between chemical compounds and electrode materials.

Benoît Piro is Professor at Paris Cité University, France, Deputy Director of the Department of Advanced Materials Science and Nanotechnology at the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam, and Operational Director of PRINTUP Institute. His research focuses on printed electronics applied to sensors of all kinds.

Jean-Christophe Lacroix is Professor and Director of the Chemistry Department at Paris Cité University, and former Deputy Director of the ITODYS laboratory. His research focuses on nanoelectrochemistry, nanostructured modified surfaces, plasmonics and molecular electronics.