Aims & Scope

Aim and Scope

Journal of Smart Sensors and Materials (JSSM) is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the publication of high-quality original research, reviews, and short communications in the broad fields of smart sensors, advanced materials, and their analytical, environmental, energy, biomedical, and industrial applications. The journal provides a platform for interdisciplinary studies spanning the design, synthesis, fabrication, characterization, integration, and practical deployment of materials and sensing systems.

JSSM aims to publish impactful contributions that advance the understanding and application of functional materials and sensing technologies for real-world challenges. While the journal maintains a strong emphasis on sensor science, detection systems, and monitoring technologies, it also welcomes studies on materials innovation and materials-based applications, including those not limited to sensor fabrication, provided that the work demonstrates clear scientific novelty, functional performance, and relevance to modern technological, environmental, or societal needs.

The journal welcomes manuscripts in, but not limited to, the following areas:

1. Smart sensors and detection systems

  • Chemical, electrochemical, optical, biosensors, physical and hybrid sensors
  • Sensors for gas, liquid, solid-state, biological, environmental, food, agricultural, and industrial analysis
  • Routine monitoring and detection systems for pollutants, contaminants, biomarkers, heavy metals, toxins, pathogens, pharmaceuticals, and emerging analytes
  • Portable, wearable, flexible, miniaturized, disposable, and point-of-use sensing platforms
  • Real-time, online, remote, and field-deployable monitoring technologies
  • Sensor arrays, multiplexed sensing, lab-on-chip, microfluidic, and integrated analytical devices
  • Signal transduction, sensitivity enhancement, selectivity improvement, calibration, validation, and sensing mechanism studies

2. Functional and advanced materials

  • Nanomaterials, polymers, composites, ceramics, biomaterials, thin films, membranes, coatings, and hybrid materials
  • Carbon-based materials, metal oxides, MOFs, COFs, hydrogels, ionic materials, molecularly imprinted materials, and bio-inspired materials
  • Electronic, electroactive, catalytic, photocatalytic, adsorptive, magnetic, piezoelectric, and responsive materials
  • Smart, stimuli-responsive, sustainable, and multifunctional materials for advanced applications
  • Materials synthesis, modification, surface engineering, structural tuning, and property optimization
  • Material characterization related to structure, morphology, surface chemistry, conductivity, stability, reactivity, and performance

3. Materials for environmental and separation applications

  • Adsorbents and sorbent materials for pollutant removal and resource recovery
  • Photocatalysts, electrocatalysts, and catalytic materials for degradation, conversion, and remediation
  • Corrosion-resistant materials, anti-corrosion coatings, inhibitors, and surface protection systems
  • Membranes and filtration materials for water treatment, gas separation, and purification
  • Materials for wastewater treatment, environmental cleanup, decontamination, and sustainable process applications

4. Materials for energy and electrochemical applications

  • Battery materials, supercapacitor materials, fuel-cell-related materials, and energy storage systems
  • Electrode materials, solid electrolytes, separators, current collector modifications, and interface engineering
  • Photoactive and electroactive materials for energy conversion and storage
  • Materials for sensing-energy integration, self-powered devices, and multifunctional electrochemical systems

5. Analytical, monitoring, and diagnostic applications

  • Analytical methods involving advanced materials for detection, quantification, screening, and routine monitoring
  • Materials-enabled platforms for quality control, clinical diagnostics, environmental surveillance, and process monitoring
  • On-site, low-cost, rapid, and high-throughput analytical systems
  • Detection and monitoring approaches supported by chemometrics, data processing, pattern recognition, and intelligent analysis

6. Device engineering and translational applications

  • Fabrication techniques including printing, coating, deposition, nanostructuring, and additive manufacturing
  • Sensor-device integration, packaging, stability, reproducibility, and long-term performance
  • Prototypes, demonstrators, and application-driven systems for healthcare, environment, food safety, agriculture, manufacturing, infrastructure, and smart living
  • Translation of material and sensor innovations toward practical, scalable, and user-oriented technologies

JSSM encourages submissions that bridge fundamental materials science, applied sensing, and functional system development. Manuscripts may address basic mechanisms, proof-of-concept innovation, prototype development, or validated application studies, as long as the work demonstrates scientific rigor, originality, and relevance to the journal’s interdisciplinary mission.

The journal particularly welcomes research that connects materials design with measurable performance, whether in sensing, monitoring, protection, remediation, energy storage, catalysis, separation, or diagnostic applications.