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Feature Issue of Optical Materials Express and Biomedical Optics Express

Biophotonic Materials and Applications

Submissions Open: 15 November 2015

Submission Deadline: 5 January 2016

Biophotonics could be defined as the interplay of light and biological matter. The percolation of new optical technology into the realm of biology has literally shed new light onto the inner workings of biological systems. This has revealed new applications for optics in biology. In a parallel trend, biomolecules have been also investigated for their optical applications.

Materials are playing a central role in the development of biophotonics. New materials, fabrication methods, and structures are enabling new biosensors, contrast agents, imaging strategies, and assay methods. Similarly, biologic materials themselves can be used in photonic devices.

In this context, two open access, rapid-publication journals, Optical Materials Express and Biomedical Optics Express, will publish a joint feature issue covering advances in biophotonics materials. We are seeking previously unpublished contributions in the following topics:

  • Novel materials and devices for biophotonics, including imaging, microscopy, sensing, therapies, and optogenetics
  • Nanoparticles, nanostructures, and engineered molecules for biosensing and bioimaging
  • Microfluidic structures for bioanalysis
  • Photonic crystals, fiber structures, and resonators for biosensors
  • Optical properties and applications of DNA and biomaterials
  • Optically induced tissue engineering
  • Other research involving materials and biophotonics

Authors may choose to submit to either Optical Materials Express or Biomedical Optics Express. Articles describing the syntheses, physics, processing or characterization of materials for applications in biophotonics should generally be submitted to Optical Materials Express. Articles applying materials with primary emphasis on bioimaging, biosensing, and other biophotonic-related research areas should generally be submitted to Biomedical Optics Express. Normal article processing charges for these journals will apply.

Papers will appear in their respective journals and will be published online upon acceptance. Additionally, a joint virtual feature issue with a combined table of contents of papers in Optical Materials Express and Biomedical Optics Express will appear once all papers are published.

Manuscripts must be prepared according to the usual standards for submission to Optical Materials Express and Biomedical Optics Express and must be uploaded through OSA's electronic-submission system: Optical Materials Express Author Information; Biomedical Optics Express Author Information. When submitting, please specify that the manuscript is for the Biophotonics Materials feature issue (choose from the drop-down menu).

Feature Issue Editors

Optical Materials Express

Kwang-Sup Lee, Department of Advanced Materials, Hannam University, South Korea (Lead)

Chantal Andraud, Chemistry Laboratory, ENS-Lyon, Lyon, France

Kaoru Tamada, Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Biomedical Optics Express

Konstantin Sokolov, University of Texas M.D Anderson Cancer Center, USA (Lead for BOEx)

Kenneth T. Kotz, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA

Gang Zheng, Princess Margaret Cancer Center, University of Toronto, Canada