Abstract
The contributions of Italian researchers to sensor research in 2015 is reviewed. The analysis of the activities in one year allows one to obtain a snapshot of the Italian scenario capturing the main directions of the research activities. Furthermore, the distance of more than one year makes meaningful the bibliometric analysis of the reviewed papers. The review shows a research community distributed among different scientific disciplines, from chemistry, physics, engineering, and material science, with a strong interest in collaborative works.
Highlights
Chemical sensors are devices that convert the concentration of target compounds into an “analytical” signal
Real samples are expected to have oxidisable compounds since the detection of the hydrogen peroxide, generated by the oxidase enzyme, is obtained via reduction at very low over-potential. This has been demonstrated by Sannini et al who, by using a similar approach (SPE modified with Prussian Blue), realized a lactate biosensor able to monitor the malolactic fermentation in an intereferent-rich matrix like wine [49]
Chemical sensing and biosensing have still not reached the maturity to be included in such massively massively diffused goods, there is a wide need for such devices for a large number of diffused goods, there is a wide need for such devices for a large number of applications applications ranging from medical diagnosis, to environmental control and food safety monitoring
Summary
Chemical sensors are devices that convert the concentration of target compounds into an “analytical” signal. The paper begins with a short presentation of the Italian Association of Sensor and Microsystems that since 1996 has organized a national conference on the wide field of sensors, with a conspicuous. Sensors 2017, 17, 868 presentation of papers on chemical sensors and biosensors Along the years this conference has become a sort of privileged forum for scientists and technicians involved in the wide field of sensors. Presentation of papers on chemical sensors and biosensors Noteworthy examples are the Società Italiana di Chimica (Italian Chemical Society) and the Società di Ottica e Fotonica (Optics and Photonic Society) For this reason, since 2012 a national conference on sensors was launched with the main purpose of gathering together all the national research societies interested in sensors. That the number of papers in the national conference does not dramatically exceed the number of papers presented at AISEM conferences, evidencing the important role of AISEM on the national scenario
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