Nanostructured Materials for Sensing Applications
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the cutting-edge advancements in nanotechnology-based sensors, covering topics ranging from fundamental principles to practical applications. By providing readers with up-to-date insights, practical guidance, and a multidisciplinary perspective, the book equips researchers, professionals, and students involved with detection of various types of analytes including environmental pollutants, chemical contaminants, food borne pathogens, and disease biomarkers with the knowledge and tools they need to stay abreast of the latest developments in nano sensing and make meaningful contributions to the field.
The book serves two crucial purposes; first, it gathers the most relevant information about the prospects of nanotechnology-based sensors as a strategy to trace numerous pollutants and disease biomarkers, thereby addressing pressing environmental and healthcare challenges; second, it aims to motivate the industrial sector and government agencies to invest more in the research and development of this strategy, recognizing it as a powerful tool to tackle these critical issues.
About the Author :
Ajit Khosla, PhD, is a distinguished professor in the School of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology at Xidian University, and SWEL Lab distinguished professor at department of mechanical Systems Engineering, Yamagata University. He is a fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH), the Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Royal Society of Arts and Fellow of the Electrochemical Society, United States. He is the author of over 200 publications in refereed journals, 5 books and 5 US patents. He is Founding Editor-in-Chief of ECS' first gold open access journals (2022 to 2025), ECS Sensors Plus and Editor ECS family of journals (2015 to 2024). He has organized over 50 conferences, mini colloquiums and workshops along with IEEE, ECS, ACS and IOP. He is a long-s3tanding member of IEEE and has been serving as associate editor for IEEE Access. He serves on the editorial board of IOP Nanotechnology journal and Wiley-IET Nanobiotechnology journal. Furthermore, he is Recipient of ECS Sensor Division Outstanding Achievement Award and is listed as Top 2% cited researcher- 2022, 2023 and 2024 by Stanford-Elsevier Ranking.
Tokeer Ahmad, PhD, is a distinguished Professor of Nano/Energy/Physical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia. Prof. Ahmad has supervised 16 PhD's, 86 postgraduates, 10 projects, published 225 research papers, one patent and three books with research citation of 9685, h-index of 59 and i10-index of 182. Prof. Ahmad is active reviewer of 201 journals, delivered 214 Invited talks, evaluated 70 external doctoral theses and presented 139 conference papers. Prof. Ahmad is the recipient of CRSI Bronze Medal, MRSI Medal, SMC Bronze Medal, ISCAS Medal, Inspired Teacher's President of India Award, DST-DFG award, IIT Delhi Alumni Faculty Award, Distinguished Scientist Award, Dr. S. S. Deshpande National Award, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Excellence Award of Education, Teacher's Excellence Award, Elected Member of National Academy of Sciences India and Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), UK. Prof. Ahmad has been figured in World Top 2% Scientists for five consecutive years since 2020 in both coveted lists including career long by Stanford University, USA.
Irshad Ahmad Wani, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Postgraduate Department of Chemistry, Govt. Degree College Anantnag, University of Kashmir, India. Dr. Wani teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses and has published extensively in reputed international journals. He has coauthored and co-edited several books with several international publishers notably, Wiley, Royal Society of Chemistry, Electrochemical Society, Springer etc., actively contributing to scholarly publishing. As Topical Editor of S-Cube: Sustainable Solutions and Society (SPAST) Journal, he advocates for sustainable development. His contributions have been recognized with the ICTSGS Global Services Award (2021) and the B.N. Kailoo Memorial Medal (2009). He is also an associate member of the Institute of Physics.
Stefano Cinti, PhD is an Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples 'Federico II' where he leads the uninanobiosensors Lab (uninanobiosensors.com) at University of Naples 'Federico II.' He has published more than 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals, with an H-index of 40 and >6500 citations. Among all the prizes and certificates, in 2018 he was named Best Young Researcher in Bio-Analytical Chemistry, in 2019 he was named Best Young Researcher in Analytical Chemistry (both by the Italian Chemical Society), in 2022 he was awarded with the early career award from International Society of Electrochemistry in Analytical Electrochemistry, in 2022 he was awarded with Biosensors 2022 Young Investigator Award, in 2023 he was recognized as Sensor Division Early Career Award of Electrochemistry Society (ECS), in 2024 he was included in the ACS Measurement Science Au Rising Stars, and from 2021 is regularly included in the World's Top 2% Scientists. He is the Chair of AMYC-BIOMED, a multidisciplinary conference for young chemists in the biomedical sciences. He is very active in communicating science to nonspecialized audiences through TV shows, radio, and magazine
