Call for Papers for a Focus Issue of the Journal of Materials Research: Silicon-Based Nanoparticles for Biosensing and Biomedical Applications
March 2013
Submission Deadline: May 30. 2012
The past few years have witnessed a major growth in the use of semiconductor nanoparticles in the fields of biosensing and biomedicine for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. The tremendous progress in the field of nanotechnology has generated many techniques for the fabrication of semiconductor nanostructures with controlled composition, tailored properties, and multiple functionalities, and a diverse set of surface chemical reactions have been developed to allow their integration into biological systems. With physical dimensions comparable to many common biomolecules, semiconductor nanostructures are also employed in many hybrid nanoparticle-biomolecule systems. Silicon and silicon-based nanoparticles possess a number of unique properties important for biosensing and biomedicine applications, including low toxicity, biocompatibility, stable photoluminescence, dissolution in vivo, and natural abundance.
The March 2013 focus issue of Journal of Materials Research will bring together current activities in the fields of biosensing and biomedicine using silicon-based nanoparticles and nanostructures, including porous and non-porous silicon nanoparticles, mesoporous silicon oxide, and other nanostructured silicon compounds.
Contributed papers are solicited in the following areas:
Biosensing and chemical sensing
Drug delivery systems
In vivo imaging and medical diagnostics
Tissue engineering
Environmental monitoring
High throughput screening
Food safety
Security
GUEST EDITORS:
Raúl J. Martín-Palma, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, and The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Michael J. Sailor, University of California, San Diego, USA
MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
To be considered for this issue, new and previously unpublished results significant to the development of this field should be presented. The manuscripts must be submitted via the JMR electronic submission system by May 30, 2012. Manuscripts submitted after this deadline will not be considered for the issue due to time constraints on the review process. Submission instructions may be found at www.mrs.org/jmr-instructions. Please select “Focus Issue: Silicon-based Nanoparticles for Biosensing and Biomedical Applications” as the manuscript type. All manuscripts will be reviewed in a normal but expedited fashion. Papers submitted by the deadline and subsequently accepted will be published in the Focus Issue. Other manuscripts that are acceptable but cannot be included in the issue will be scheduled for publication in a subsequent issue of JMR.
Please contact jmr@mrs.org with questions.
