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Novel Nanobiophotonic Approaches for Sensing and Imaging

Nanobiophtonics is an emerging field with integrating nanotechnology with biomedical science. This field pro-vides great opportunities to develop new diagnostic and therapeutic methods towards advanced healthcare tech-nology as well as to study fundamentals of light-nano/biomaterial interactions. In these research areas, there have been great achievements in high-sensitive biosensing at the single molecular and cellular level and high-spatial imaging of intracellular structures using nanophotonic structures. These techniques offer an pow-erful way for sensing and imaging various biological enti-ties with a nanoscale resolution beyond the diffraction limit. Furthermore, nanobiophtonics has been continuous-ly advanced and expanded to other fields through the convergence with other functional materials and plat-forms. This special Issue aims to introduce recent inter-disciplinary approaches towards innovative nanobiopho-tonics-based sensing and imaging technologies.

Guest editor: 
Inhee Choi, University of Seoul, Korea, inheechoi1@uos.ac.kr

New articles will be added here as they are published.


  1. Nanoscale imaging of biological samples can provide rich morphological and mechanistic information about biological functions and dysfunctions at the subcellular and molecular level. Expansion microscopy (ExM)...

    Authors: Wei Wang, Yat Ho Chan, SoYoung Kwon, Jamuna Tandukar and Ruixuan Gao
    Citation: Nano Convergence 2022 9:30
  2. The past decade has witnessed a rapid growth of graphene plasmonics and their applications in different fields. Compared with conventional plasmonic materials, graphene enables highly confined plasmons with mu...

    Authors: Zhichao Zhang, Yeageun Lee, Md Farhadul Haque, Juyoung Leem, Ezekiel Y. Hsieh and SungWoo Nam
    Citation: Nano Convergence 2022 9:28
  3. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) regulate various physiological and pathological conditions in cells by interacting with signaling molecules and inducing oxidative stress. Therefore, sensitive monitoring of ROS l...

    Authors: Hakchun Kim, Hyun Ji An, Junhee Park, Yohan Lee, Min Seob Kim, Seungki Lee, Nam Dong Kim, Jihwan Song and Inhee Choi
    Citation: Nano Convergence 2022 9:23

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    Journal Impact Factor: 13.4
    5-year Journal Impact Factor: 10.7
    Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 1.842
    SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 2.222

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    Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 32
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