15Overview and Future Trends of Nanosensors
15.1 Introduction
The progression from macro- to nanosensors has been a very long and interesting evolution (Khanna 2008, 2009). Several nanomaterials, notably metallic nanoparticles (NPs), carbon nanotubes (CNTs), and quantum dots (QDs), together with enabling nanotechnologies, duly supported by microtechnologies have been exploited to realize nanosensors.
15.1.1 Interfacing Nanosensors with Human Beings
The core idea is to understand that a nanosensor is not necessarily a device merely reduced in size to a few nanometers, but a device that makes use of the unique properties of nanomaterials and NPs to detect and measure new types of events and entities in the nanoscale. Nanotechnology received ...
