Nanomaterials for Biosensors combines the chemistry and materials science of nanomaterials and biomolecules with their detection strategies, sensor physics and device engineering.

Features:

• Covers the important types of nanomaterials for sensory applications, namely carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, fluorescent and biological molecules, nanorods, nanowires and nanoparticles, dendrimers, and nanostructured silicon
• Illustrates a wide range of sensing principles, including fluorescence, nanocantilever oscillators, electrochemical detection, antibody-antigen interactions, and magnetic detection

Contents

Biosensing using Carbon Nanotube Field-effect Transistors

• Carbon Nanotube Field-effect Transistors (NTFETs)
• Sensor Applications of NTFETs

Carbon Nanotube-based Sensor

• Growth of Carbon Nanotubes
• Methods to Prepare CNTs-based Sensors and Biosensors
• Application of CNTs-based Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors
• Functionalization of CNTs

Nanotubes, Nanowires, and Nanocantilevers in Biosensor Development

• Carbon Nanotubes in Biosensor Development
• Nanowires in Biosensor Development
• Nanocantilevers for Biosensors

Fullerene-based Electrochemical Detection Methods for Biosensing

• Electrochemical Biosensing
• Evolution of Biosensors
• Mediation Process in Biosensors
• Fullerenes
• Fullerene-mediated Biosensing

Optical Biosensing Based on Metal and Semiconductor Colloidal Nanocrystals

• Colloidal Nanocrystals
• Nanocrystal Functionalization for Biosensing
• Optical Techniques

Quantum Dot-based Nanobiohybrids for Fluorescent Detection of Molecular and Cellular Biological Targets

• Quantum Dots – Basic Principles of Design and Synthesis, Optical Properties, and Advantages over Classical Fluorophores
• Quantum Dots for Fluorescent Labeling and Imaging
• Quantum Dots for Immunoblot Analysis with Fluorescent Detection
• Quantum Dots for FRET Analyses, Time-resolved Fluorimetry, and Development of Optical Recognition-based Biosensors.
• Quantum Dots as New Fluorescent Standards for the Thin Calibration of Fluorescent Instrumentation

Detection of Biological Materials by Gold Nano-biosensor-based Electrochemical Method

• Template Synthesis of Gold Nano-wire Arrays for Biosensor Applications
• Synthesis of a Linker and its Attachment to Gold Posts of GNW followed by Binding to Specific Antibodies
• Development of Electrochemical Nano-biosensor for Bacteria Detection

Dendrimer-based Electrochemical Detection Methods

• Applications for Biosensors

Coordinated Biosensors: Integrated Systems for Ultrasensitive Detection of Biomarkers

• Elements of a Nanobiosensor

Protein-based Biosensors using Nanomaterials

• Metal Nanoparticles
• Metallic Oxide Nanoparticles
• Carbon Nanotubes
• Nanocomposite Materials
• Nanoparticles with Special Functions

Biomimetic Nanosensors (Raz Jelinek and Sofiya Kolusheva)

• Nanostructures in Biosensor Design.
• Nanosensors for Probing Biological and Cellular Systems.
• Biological Components in Nanosensors.
• Nano-biotechnology and Biomedical Diagnosis

Reagentless Biosensors Based on Nanoparticles

• Surface Dielectric Enhancement
• Catalytic Activation
• Biomolecule Conformational Modulated Effects

Pico/Nanoliter Chamber Array Chips for Single-cell, DNA and Protein Analyses

• Multiplexed Polymerase Chain Reaction from A Single Copy DNA using Nanoliter-volume Microchamber Array
• On-chip Cell-free Protein Synthesis using A Picoliter Chamber Array
• High-throughput Single-cell Analysis System using Pico-liter Microarray

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