Editorial pubs.acs.org/acssensors
Welcome to ACS Sensors elcome to ACS Sensors. We are really excited about having a society journal dedicated to all aspects of chemical and biological sensors. We will work tirelessly to help make ACS Sensors the journal many in the community want it to bea journal that not only publishes the very best conceptual and applied advances in sensing, but also represents both the academic and commercial sectors, and publishes reviews and opinion pieces that help advance this exciting and expanding field. To achieve these goals we need your help as authors and referees. As authors, we invite you to submit your best sensor-related work, and as referees, we need you to help make the good papers we receive even better. So, what types of papers are we looking to publish? Well, really any innovative work on sensors that monitor chemical or biological species or processes. These papers could be exciting conceptual advances in sensing, or powerful application papers that use existing sensors in new ways or to provide new knowledge. In all cases, we would ideally like the sensors to be challenged in complex samples, that experimental error analysis is provided, that the analytical information is compared to an established method where possible, and thatabove all else the work is innovative and interesting. We emphasize these points as they are the sorts of elements of a paper we feel are part of most of the best sensing contributions. When it comes to topics related to chemical and biological sensing, we are completely nonprescriptive. We are interested in papers on biosensors, chemical sensors, gas sensors, intracellular sensors, single molecule sensors, cell-based sensors, sensor arrays, and microfluidic devices for sensing. We are also hoping to receive papers on new materials and transducers for sensing that are broadly applicable, new ways of fabricating sensors of commercial relevance, sensor validation, and sensor networks. The types of papers that will allow ACS Sensors to cover such a breadth in sensing will not only be original research published as full articles and letters, but also reviews and more opinion pieces such as perspective articles. The lack of prescription with regard to subject matter is because the chemical and biological sensing field is advancing at incredible speed in many different directions. We see this in the very first issue where we have a review on biosensors developed using two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide,1 while our cover paper is on paper-based fluidics.2 The first paper to receive ACS Editors’ Choice status is on an intracellular sensor for zinc,3 and the first paper from one of us relates to addressing the challenge of alkaline pH values found in environmental samples on potentiometric anion analysis.4 The first issue also includes papers focusing on applications as diverse as environmental analysis, food monitoring, biomedical, and even nanoparticle detection.5 Less well represented in the first issue are papers on biosensors, cell-based sensors, or single-molecule devices, but this will certainly be addressed with time. Your editorial team covers this broad range of sensing expertise. Shana has a background in electrochemical biosensors for clinical analysis as well as intracellular sensors; Eric’s expertise is in chemical sensors for environmental and
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clinical analysis; Yitao has a background in electrochemical biosensors as well as nanopore and optical sensors; while NJ has a background in device physics and engineering, and he publishes on plasmonic sensing, single molecule devices, and gas sensing. Justin has a background in electrochemical and optical sensors, with a strong emphasis on interfacial design. Nella is the Managing Editor who is also the Managing Editor of Analytical Chemistry and Journal of Proteome Research. So, we hope you feel your journal is in safe hands. We want to thank the Editorial Advisory Board for their assistance in developing ACS Sensors, during its formative stages in particular. If you take a quick look at the Editorial Advisory Board, you will see that all the members are top-quality sensor scientists. We also wanted to thank the staff at the ACS for helping launch such a great platform for the journal and getting this first issue out. In the beginning of this editorial we said we need your help to make this the journal we all hope it will become. We have been overwhelmed with your response. The number of papers submitted has exceeded all expectations and we are delighted with the papers that have been accepted. You have been great. Keep those good papers coming! We are immensely proud of the first issue and hope you like it. We think it is a fantastic set of papers that set a really good benchmark for the journal. We are excited to be part of growing the field of sensing through the journal and we welcome your ideas, feedback, and contributions.
J. Justin Gooding, Editor-in-Chief The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Shana O. Kelley, Associate Editor University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Eric Bakker, Associate Editor University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland Received: January 8, 2016 Published: January 22, 2016 1
DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.6b00015 ACS Sens. 2016, 1, 1−2
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Yitao Long, Associate Editor East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
Nongjian (NJ) Tao, Associate Editor Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona United States
Antonella I. Mazur, Managing Editor
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REFERENCES
(1) Kalantar-zadeh, K.; Ou, J. Z. Biosensors Based on TwoDimensional MoS2. ACS Sens. 2016, 1 (1), 5−16. (2) Cunningham, J. C.; Kogan, M. R.; Tsai, Y. J.; Luo, L.; Richards, I.; Crooks, R. M. Paper-Based Sensor for Electrochemical Detection of Silver Nanoparticle Labels by Galvanic Exchange. ACS Sens. 2016, 1 (1), 40−47. (3) Zastrow, M. L.; Radford, R.J.; Chyan, W.; Anderson, C. T.; Zhang, D. Y.; Loas, A.; Tzounopoulos, T.; Lippard, S. J. ReactionBased Probes for Imaging Mobile Zinc in Live Cells and Tissues. ACS Sens. 2016, 1 (1), 32−39. (4) Pankratova, N.; Ghahraman Afshar, M.; Yuan, D.; Crespo, G. A.; Bakker, E. Local Acidification of Membrane Surfaces for Potentiometric Sensing of Anions in Environmental Samples. ACS Sens. 2016, 1 (1), 48−54. (5) Mahmoudi, M.; Lohse, S. E.; Murphy, C. J.; Suslick, K. S. Identification of Nanoparticles with a Colorimetric Sensor Array. ACS Sens. 2016, 1 (1), 17−21.
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DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.6b00015 ACS Sens. 2016, 1, 1−2
