The development of nanoscale materials for optical chemical sensing applications has emerged as one of the most important research areas of interest over the past decades. Our presentation concentrates on nanomaterials, such as quantum dots, polymer- and sol-gel-based particles. The benefits and drawbacks of the properties of these nanomaterials used in optical sensing applications are given, and the recently developed optical chemical sensors and probes based on photoluminescence are overviewed. Finally, some future trends of the nanomaterial-based optical chemical sensors are given.
COBISS.SI-ID: 14514454
The development of nanoscale materials for optical chemical sensing applications has emerged as one of the most important research areas of interest over the past decades. Nanomaterials exhibit highly tunable size- and shape-dependent chemical and physical properties, show unique surface chemistry, thermal and electrical properties, high surface area and large pore volume per mass unit area. Because of their features they can help to improve sensitivity, response time and detection limit of sensors. Recently developed photoluminescence-based optical chemical nanosensors are presented.
COBISS.SI-ID: 14803990