Nanosensors for Smart Manufacturing
Micro and Nano Technologies Series

Nanosensors for Smart Manufacturing provides information on the fundamental design concepts and emerging applications of nanosensors in smart manufacturing processes. In smart production, if the products and machines are integrated, embedded, or equipped with sensors, the system can immediately collect the current operating parameters, predict the product quality, and then feed back the optimal parameters to machines in the production line. In this regard, smart sensors and their wireless networks are important components of smart manufacturing.

Nanomaterials-based sensors (nanosensors) offer several advantages over their microscale counterparts, including lower power consumption, fast response time, high sensitivity, lower concentration of analytes, and smaller interaction distance between sensors and products. With the support of artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, neural networks, and ambient intelligence, sensor systems have become smarter. This is an important reference source for materials scientists and engineers who want to learn more about how nanoscale sensors can enhance smart manufacturing techniques and processes.

SECTION 1

Basic Principles

1. Methods for design and fabrication of nanosensors

2. General techniques for preparation of nanosensors

3. Smart nanosensors: Design, fabrication and application

4. Nanoscale interface techniques for standardized integration of nanosensors in current devices

5. Flexible sensors

6. Smart nanosensors for blockchain- and IoT-enabled sensing

7. Flexible smart nanosensors

8. 3D printing and nanosensors

9. Flexible Nano Smart sensors

10. Smart nanobiosensors

SECTION 2

Emerging applications

11. Temperature nanosensors for smart manufacturing

12. Nanosensors for food quality control, especially essential oils

13. Nanobiosensors for smart manufacturing

14. Practical applications of triboelectric nanogenerators as self-powered active sensors for pressures, vibrations, and impacts

15. Smart nanosensors for intelligent packaging

16. Smart materials for electrochemical flexible nanosensors: Advances and applications

17. Nano self-sensing concretes (NSsCs)

18. Self-powered, rapid-response and highly flexible nanosensors

19. Nanotechnology-based E-nose for smart manufacturing

20. Nanostructured gas sensors in smart manufacturing

21. Next-generation self-powered nanosensors

22. Paper-based nanosensors for smart manufacturing

23. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy for biosensing

24. Humidity nanosensors for smart manufacturing

25. Nanosensors for intelligent packaging

Professor Sabu Thomas is the Director of Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He is also currently the Chairman of the Trivandrum Engineering Science and Technology Research Park (TrESPARK), Trivandrum, Kerala, India. He was the former Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. Prof. Thomas is a highly committed teacher and a remarkably active researcher well-known nationally and internationally for his outstanding contributions in polymer science and nanotechnology. He has published over 1400 research articles in international refereed journals. and has also edited and written 210 books. His H-index is 140 and total citations are more than 94,000. He has supervised 125 PhD theses. He has received many international and national awards and recognitions. Under the leadership of Prof. Thomas, Mahatma Gandhi University has been transformed into a top University in India.

• Outlines the smart nanosensor classes used in manufacturing applications
• Shows how nanosensors are being used to make more efficient manufacturing systems
• Assesses the major obstacles to designing nanosensor-based manufacturing systems at an industrial scale