Dear Colleagues,

Electrospinning represents a simple and effective technique to fabricate nanofibrous polymer materials with large surface-to-volume ratios and desirable engineered properties, which have been widely used for applications in biomedical engineering, tissue engineering, sensors, nanodevices, and energy and environmental sciences. To extend the applications of electrospun nanomaterials in sensor techniques, numerous functional nanoscale building blocks, such as metallic/metal oxide nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, graphene, graphene quantum dots, and others, have been incorporated into polymers and then electrospun into hybrid nanofibrous materials. In the past years, with the help of electrospinning, a series of high-performance fibrous nanomaterial-based sensors/biosensors have been successfully fabricated for the detection of various analytes including gas, ions, small molecules, cells, DNA, proteins, and other biomolecules. There is no doubt that electrospinning has become one of the most powerful techniques for preparing diverse nanomaterials for highly sensitive and selective label-free sensors.

In this Special Issue, we invite contributions from scientists who are actively involved in research related to the fabrication of label-free sensors through the electrospinning method. The topics include, but not limited to, the following:

• Functional nanomaterials fabricated by electrospinning for sensor applications;
• Fabrication of high-performance sensor architectures;
• Electrospun nanoporous membranes for sensors;
• Electrospun hybrid nanomaterials for sensors;
• Electrospun nanomaterials for gas detection;
• Electrospun nanomaterials for bioanalysis;
• Electrospun nanomaterials for environmental monitoring;
• Development of sensing techniques;
• Development of sensing performances.

Dr. Gang Wei
Prof. Zhiqiang Su
Guest Editors

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• electrospinning
• fabrication technique
• label-free
• sensors and biosensors
• nanoparticles
• graphene
• carbon nanotubes
• nanofibrous membrane
• hybrid nanomaterials
• electrochemical sensors
• fluorescent sensors
• colorimetric sensors