Advanced Sensor And Detection Materials

The development of sensors at macroscopic or nanometric scales in solid, liquid, or gas phases, contact or noncontact configurations, has driven the research of sensor & detection materials and technology into high gear. The emphasis on detection techniques requires the use of spin crossover organic, inorganic and composite materials and methods that could be unique for sensors fabrication. The influence of length, composition and conformation structure of materials on their properties and the possibilities to adjust sensing properties by doping or adding the side-groups are the starting point of multifarious sensing. The role of inter-molecular interactions, polymer and ordered phases formation, as well as the behavior under pressure, magnetic and electric fields are also important facts for processing of ultra-sensing materials.

Advanced Sensor and Detection Materials highlights the key features that aid the design of new sensor and detection materials for a multitude of sensor and detection devices. The senior contributors write on the follow topics:

• Construction of nanostructures
• The role of the shape in the design of new nanoparticles
• Advances in sensors’ nanotechnology
• Molecularly imprinted polymer for enantioselective sensing devices
• Ferrites for high frequency applications
• Mesoporous Silica: Making “Sense” of Sensors
• Porous TiO2-Au/Ag materials
• Ferroelectronic glass-ceramics
• NASICON: Synthesis, structure and electrical characterisation
• Heavy clay products quality
• Ionic liquids
• Dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers
• Theoretical investigation of superconducting state parameters
• Microscopic polarization and thermal conductivity of binary Wurtzite nitrides
• Experiments techniques and theoretical background to study materials

Ashutosh Tiwari is an Associate Professor at the Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre, Linkoping University, Sweden; Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Materials Letters and Advanced Materials Reviews; Secretary General, International Association of Advanced Materials; a materials chemist and also a docent in applied physics at Linkoping University, Sweden. He has published more than 350 articles, patents, and conference proceedings in the field of materials science and technology and has edited/authored about twenty books on the advanced state-of-the-art of materials science. He is a founding member of the Advanced Materials World Congress and the Indian Materials Congress.

Mustafa M. Demir received his PhD degree from Sabanci University, Turkey, in 2004. From 2004 to 2007 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany. He then moved to Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey, where he is now Chairman of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.