Sensors & Actuators, B: Chemical is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to covering research and development in the field of chemical sensors, actuators and microsystems. The scope of the journal encompasses, but is not restricted to, the following areas: Sensing principles and mechanisms New materials development (transducers and sensitive/recognition components) Fabrication technology Actuators Optical devices Electrochemical devices Mass-sensitive devices Gas sensors Biosensors Analytical microsystems Environmental, process control and biomedical applications Signal processing Sensor and sensor-array chemometrics uTAS - Micro Total Analysis Systems Microsystems for the generation, handling and analysis of (bio)chemical information The special section of Sensors & Actuators, B: Chemical on uTAS is dedicated to contributions concerning miniaturised systems for (bio)chemical synthesis and analysis, also comprising work on Bio-MEMS, Lab-on-a-chip, biochips and microfluidics. Topics covered by the uTAS section include: Physics and chemistry of microfluidics Microfabrication technology for uTAS Analytical chemical aspects Detectors, sensors, arrays for uTAS uTAS applications DNA analysis Microinstrumentation Microsystems for combinatorial chemistry