Recent Advances in Quartz Crystal Microbalance-Based Sensor Applications: Part II

Dear Colleagues,

There has been a rapid increase in the number of publications related to QCM sensing applications during the last few decades. They have been extensively used in deposition rate monitoring for controlling thickness in many deposition techniques, such as thermal vapor deposition, sputtering, and electrochemical deposition. QCMs have recently been used in many other applications in various disciplines of science and technology for the detection of vapors, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), environmental pollutants, biomolecules, disease biomarkers, cells, and pathogens in many different environments, including vacuums.

Recent advances in high-frequency QCMs allow us to measure the mass change in analytes adsorbed on modified QCM surfaces around pg/cm² sensitivities. Among many other analytical techniques, QCM provides one of the most promising sensor technologies based on its low cost, rapid response, portability, nonhazardous label-free real-time procedure, and high sensitivity, which is ideal for the sensitive detection of analytes for next-generation sensors such as chemical sensing, including electronic nose, electronic tongue, microfluidic devices, lab-on-a-chip, single molecule sensing, nanosensors, medical analyzers, enzyme sensors, drugs, and medicodiagnostic testing.

This Special Issue of Chemosensors is dedicated to the discussion of the state of the art in QCM sensors with challenging material-coating techniques not only for gas/liquid phase and biosensing, but also for primary industries such as agriculture and aquatic products in industry.

Prof. Dr. Salih Okur
Guest Editor

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• QCM-based gas sensors
• electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance (EQCM)
• QCM-based sensors with biofunctional materials and food inspection
• application of QCM for medical diagnosis
• protein immobilization, cell attachment, cell adhesion
• drug discovery and complex biopolymeric/biomolecular systems
• QCM-based biosensors modified with molecular imprinted polymers
• quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring analysis using QCM/QCM-D
• chiral recognition, odor classification, and composition analysis
• multichannel QCM array systems, QCM-based electronic nose, and electronic tongues

• Recent Advances in Quartz Crystal Microbalance-Based Sensor Applications in Chemosensors (8 articles)