
Warmest congratulations on the success of the 1st International Electronic Conference on Chemical Sensors and Analytical Chemistry (CSAC2021). Many thanks for your participation.
The winners of the conference awards have been announced on the part of 'Award Winners Announcement'.
All accepted extended abstracts will be published as one dedicated volume in MDPI Chemistry Proceedings(ISSN: 2673-4583).
Participants are cordially invited to contribute with a full manuscript to our Special Issue 'Selected Papers from 1st International Electronic Conference on Chemical Sensors and Analytical Chemistry (CSAC2021)' in the journal Chemosensors (submission deadline: 31 January 2022).
See you at the next edition!
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to invite you to join the 1st International Electronic Conference on Chemical Sensors and Analytical Chemistry (CSAC2021) that will be hosted online from 1 to 15 July 2021 at https://sciforum.net/conference/CSAC2021.
What can be foreseen is that chemical sensors will play a continued and critical role in our society. In particular, in recent years, the dangers posed by biological agents and naturally occurring agents like SARS-CoV-2 have fully materialized from just a conceptual threat on the horizon to the currently realized global pandemic. So how to monitor and detect these agents has been becoming increasingly important. There has never been a greater need for (chemo)sensors, and, just like every other technology we need to develop, it all starts with research and the dissemination and sharing of that research in a scholarly form.
The scope of this online conference is to get together worldwide well-known experts who are currently working in chemical sensor technologies and to provide an online forum for presenting and discussing new results.
Throughout this event, we aim to cover, among others, the following topics:
We hope you will join us and present your work at CSAC to be part of this stimulating online experience.
Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Nicole Jaffrezic-Renault

Université de Paris, ITODYS, CNRS, UMR 7086, 15 rue J-A de Baïf, F-75013 Paris, France;
Benoît Piro is full professor in Université de Paris (France), Chemistry department. He developed various kinds of electrochemical biosensors directed to target molecules such as miRNA, proteins, peptides, antibodies, organic pollutants and participated in their economic valorization through several collaborations with biotech companies. Beyond conventional electrochemical sensors, he developed organic electronic devices e.g., organic field effect transistors and more precisely electrolyte-gated OFETs and graphene FETs (GFETs) able to operate in aqueous media, paving the way for applications in the medical or environmental fields. He also developed a number of flexible printed devices using inkjet-, screen- or dispensing- printing, for chemical and physical sensing.
School of Chemical Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia;
Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh is a professor of Chemical Engineering at UNSW and one of the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellows of 2018. Prof. Kalantar-Zadeh is involved in research in the fields of materials sciences and sensors, has co-authored of ~450 scientific papers and is also a member of the editorial boards of journals including ACS Sensors, ACS Applied Nano Materials, Advanced Materials Technologies, and ACS Nano. He has received many international awards including the 2017 IEEE Sensor Council Achievement, 2018 ACS Advances in Measurement Science Lectureship awards and 2020 Robert Boyle Prize of RSC. He also appeared in the Clarivate Analytics most highly cited list since 2018.
ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Department for Sustainability, Division of Sustainable Materials, Laboratory Functional Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Applications - Brindisi Research Center, km 706, Strada Statale 7, Appia, I-72100 Brindisi, Italy;
Michele Penza, Degree in Physics in 1990 from University of Bari, Italy. He worked with CNRSM SCpA
(IT S&T Park) and then joined ENEA in 2001. He currently manages research projects (regional, national,
international) and teams on materials science, sensors and solid-state devices at the Research Center of
Brindisi, Italy. The research interests are in sensor materials, functional materials, nanomaterials, gas sensors,
portable sensor-systems, functional applications, environmental technologies and measurements. He was
awarded with E2-Excellence ENEA 2008 for a Special Mention in Environmental Research.
Author of 2 filed national patents and 180 scientific publications, 30 invited speakers, 7 book-chapters, coorganizer of scientific meetings, chair of conference-sessions, member of international scientific committees
(EUROSENSORS, EMRS, TRANSDUCERS, IMCS, IEEE SENSORS), international expert for FP7 and
H2020 projects and national research agency/council, international reviewer, research manager with SMEs
partnership, Associate Editor and Editorial Board Member for Journal of Sensors and Sensor Systems,
Journal of Sensors, Frontiers in Materials, Sensors, Chemosensors, Guest Editor of several special issues
(Elsevier, IEEE, ASP, Hindawi, Copernicus, Beilstein Institute, AMA Science, MDPI).
His H-index: 37 (March 2021).
Sensor Lab, Department of Information Engineering (DII), University of Brescia, Via Valotti 9, 25133 Brescia, Italy;
IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, 48011 Bilbao, Spain, IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science and Department Advanced Polymers and Materials, University of Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Spain;
State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, Department of Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China;
Huangxian Ju, Changjiang Professor, the director of State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, Nanjing University; Fellows of the International Society of Electrochemistry and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D degrees from Nanjing University in 1986, 1989 and 1992, and then became a lecturer, associate professor and professor at Nanjing University in 1992, 1993 and 1999. His research interests include analytical biochemistry and nanobiosensing, focusing on signal amplification and life analytical chemistry. He have published 745 papers (451 papers in journals with IF>5), 6 English books, 7 Chinese books, 20 chapters and authored 27 patents with more than 35000 citations in SCI journals with an h-index of 96 (GS h-index 105). He won the first outstanding achievement award of Chinese chemical sensors in 2019, 3 first-class S&T prizes from Jiangsu Province Government, 3 first-class prizes in natural science from Education Ministry of China, 3 first-class S&T prizes from Chinese Association for Instrumental Analysis, 3 second-class and 2 third-class S&T prizes from Jiangsu Province Government. He is also the director of Electroanalytical Chemistry Committee, vice director of Chemical Sensors Committee, and vice president of Analytical Instrument Branch Association, Chinese Society of Instruments; vice directors of Analytical Chemistry Discipline Committee and Organic Analysis Committee, Chinese Chemical Society; vice director of Biosensor Biochip Nanotechnology Committee of Chinese Society of Bioengineering; vice director of Analytical Pharmacology Committee of Chinese Pharmacological Society; chief editor of Frontiers in Chemistry: Analytical Chemistry (http://www.frontiersin.org), associate editors of Sensors, Telomere and Telomerase, and Journal of Analysis and Testing.
PAST SESSIONS01 July 2021Webinar Chair: Dr. Manuel Algarra |
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| Speaker | Title | Time (CEST) |
| Prof. Dr. Nicole Jaffrezic-Renault | Opening Ceremony | 9:00-9:05 |
| Prof. Dr. Huangxian Ju | In situ detection of cell surface glycans with amplified biosensing strategies | 9:05-9:35 |
| Dr. Michele Penza | Chemical Sensors for Air Quality Monitoring | 9:35-10:05 |
| Dr. Verónica Serafín | Gold nanoparticles-based nanonetworks for improving electrochemical immunosensing of candidate biomarkers in this century diseases | 10:05-10:20 |
| Mafalda Pereira | Unravelling plant-pathogen interactions: proximal optical sensing as an effective tool for early detect plant diseases | 10:20-10:35 |
| Open Discussion | 10:35-10:45 | |
05 July 2021
Webinar Chair: Prof. Dr. Nicole Jaffrezic-Renault |
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| Speaker | Title | Time (CEST) |
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Prof. Dr. Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh
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Ingestible gas sensing capsules
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9:00-9:30 |
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Dr. Andrei Bratov Nikiforov
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Impedimetric transducers based on 3D-interdigitated electrode arrays for bacterial biosensing applications
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9:30-9:55 |
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Precipitationof iron oxide in hydrogel with superparamagnetic andstimuli-responsive properties
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9:55-10:15 |
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Sars-cov-2 total neutralizing immunoglobulins (igs) electrochemical quantification for reliable covid-19 immune response tracking
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10:15-10:35 |
| Open Discussion | 10:35-10:45 | |
08 July 2021
Webinar Chair: Dr. Núria Serrano |
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| Speaker | Title | Time (CEST) |
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Dr. Arcady Zhukov
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Magnetic microwires for magnetic sensor applications
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9:00-9:30
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Dr. Run Zhang
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9:30-9:55 |
| Dr. Amir Hatami |
Nanoscale amperometry reveals that only a fraction of vesicular serotonin content is released during exocytosis from single beta cells
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9:55-10:25 |
| Guzel Ziyatdinova | Sensitive and selective voltammetric sensors for the simultaneous quantification of natural phenolic antioxidants in cognac and brandy | 10:25-10:40 |
| Open Discussion | 10:40-10:55 | |
12 July 2021
Webinar Chair: Dr. Tatiana S. Perova |
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| Speaker | Title | Time (CEST) |
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Prof. Dr. Elisabetta Comini
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One dimensional metal oxides: growth and strategies for boosting sensing performances |
9:00-9:30
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Prof. Dr. Benoît Piro |
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9:30-10:00 |
| Open Discussion | 10:00-10:20 | |
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Ana Carolina P. Afonso Luís Pinto da Silva |
Carbon Dots as a Fluorescence pH Nanosensor by Application of an Active Surface Preservation Strategy |
10:20-10:35 |
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Márcio Caracho |
Essential oils as possible candidates to be included in Active Packaging Systems and the use of sensors to monitor the quality of foodstuff |
10:35-10:50 |
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Amall Ramanathan |
New half metal perovskite NbScO3 for spintronic sensing applications |
10:50-11:05 |
| Open Discussion |
11:05-11:20 |
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| Prof. Dr. Nicole Jaffrezic-Renault | Live Session Ending Conclusion |
11:20-11:30 |
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Winner: Feasibility of Total White Blood Cells Counts by Visible-Near Infrared Spectroscopy (doi:10.3390/CSAC2021-10434) Teresa Barroso, Lénio Ribeiro, Hugo Gregório, Filipe Santos and Rui C. Martins |
Winner: Portable electrochemical detection of illicit drugs in smuggled samples: towards more secure borders (doi:10.3390/CSAC2021-10612) Marc Parrilla, Robin Van Echelpoel, Noelia Felipe Montiel and Karolien De Wael |
Winner: (doi:10.3390/CSAC2021-10419) Clara Pérez-Ràfols, María A. Tapia, Rui Gusmão, Núria Serrano, Zdeněk Sofer and José Manuel Díaz-Cruz |
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M.Sc. Fancy Zhai MDPI Branch Office, Beijing Email: csac2021@mdpi.com |
Ms. Betsy Wang MDPI Branch Office, Beijing Email: csac2021@mdpi.com |