July 2014
Intermediate to advanced
552 pages
16h 9m
English
Overview
A new emerging field that combines nanoscale materials and biosensor technology is receiving increased attention. Nanostructures have been used to achieve direct wiring of biosensing elements to electrode surfaces, to promote bio-reactions, to impose nanobarcodes on biomaterials, and to amplify the signal from bio-recognition events. Nanomaterials based biosensors have found wide spread applications in the environmental and medical applications for their sensitivity, specificity, rapidity, simplicity, and cost-effectiveness.
In the same pursuit, Biosensors Nanotechnology provides detailed review chapters on a range of nanostructures such as nanoparticles, nanowires, nanotubes, nanoribbons, nanorods, nanobelts and nanosheets in the construction of biosensors with set applications of biosensors nanotechnology for biological and chemical analyses, food safety industry, biomedical diagnostics, clinical detection, and environmental monitoring.
The senior contributors write on the following topics:
ZnO and graphene microelectrode applications in biosensing
Assembly of polymers/metal nanoparticles
Gold nanoparticle-based electrochemical biosensors
Impedimetric DNA sensing employing nanomaterials
Graphene and carbon nanotube based biosensors
The-state-of-art of nanomedicine
Computational nanochemistry study
BFPF green fluorescent protein chromophore
Biosynthesis of metal nanoparticles
Ionic discotic liquid crystals
Role of advanced materials as nanosensors in water treatment
Bioconjugated-nanoporous gold films in electrochemical biosensors
Combination of molecular imprinting and nanotechnology
Recent development of fiber reinforced composite materials
Principal and properties of multiferroics and ceramics
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