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This themed collection would highlight the development and use of biochemical sensors within complex biological, environmentally relevant samples in uses such as water quality monitoring, air pollution detection, soil contamination assessment, and biodiversity monitoring, thereby enhancing our understanding of environmental health. This collection would showcase the following:

• The use of novel nanomaterials such as nanoparticles, nanocomposites and nanostructures in environmental sensing application.
• The detection of a wide range of environmentally relevant analytes, including heavy metals, organic pollutants, and biological agents.
• Utilisation of innovative techniques to develop nanosensors that exhibit enhanced sensitivity, specificity, and stability. These methods encompass both top-down and bottom-up approaches, self-assembly techniques, and advanced processes like nanolithography.
• Refinement of transduction mechanisms to convert analyte-receptor interactions into measurable signals, which can be electrical, optical, electrochemical, or mechanical, to enhance the overall performance of the sensors.
• Strategies to tailor the surfaces of nanomaterials, improving their capacity to recognize specific analytes and facilitating selective detection in complex environmental contexts.
• The integration and miniaturization of nanosensors into portable, wearable, or distributed sensing platforms enable real-time monitoring of environmental parameters.

About this call

This themed collection will include all manuscript types: original research papers, communications, perspectives and review articles. If authors are interested in submitting a review article, please email an outline proposal to the editors for checking.

Manuscripts should be submitted via the 海角社区鈥檚 online submission service and the Editorial Office informed by email. Please state the code 鈥淓NSENS25鈥� in the 鈥淐omments to the Editor鈥� submission question when you submit your manuscript, to indicate that this is a submission for the themed collection. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of the collection and inclusion of accepted articles in the collection is not guaranteed. All manuscripts will be subject to the journal's usual peer review process. Accepted manuscripts will be added to the online collection as soon as they are online and will be published in a regular issue of Environmental Science: Nano.