edited by Richard Thompson
Fluorescence Sensors and Biosensors emphasizes the most recent developments and emerging technologies with the broadest impacts.
Features:
- Provides an up-to-date account of fluorescence-based sensors with an accessible approach suitable for newcomers as well as the more advanced researcher
- Illustrates the high intrinsic sensitivity, flexibility, and ability of fluorescent sensors to remotely image chemical analytes
- Highlights new recognition and transduction approaches, new technologies, and several practical applications including lab-on-a-chip devices
- Discusses metal-enhanced fluorescence, phosphorescent labels, fluorescent probes selective for anions, and a unique technology for fluid-handling on the nanoscale
- Includes abundant illustrations and color figures
Contents
- Prospects for the De Novo Design of Nucleic Acid Biosensors
- Biosensors Based on Periplasmic Binding Proteins
- Molecular Beacon DNA Probes Based on Fluorescence Biosensing
- Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer-Based Sensors for Bioanalysis
- Carbonic Anhydrase-Based Biosensing of Metal Ions: Issues and Future Prospects
- Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence Sensing
- Subpicomolar Assays of Antibodies and DNA Using Phosphorescence Labels
- Development of Fluorescent Dipyrrolylquinoxaline-Based Anion Sensors
- Lab-on-a-Chip and Fluorescence Sensing on the Microscale
- The Array Biosensors
- Planar Waveguide Biosensors for Point-of-Care Clinical and Molecular Diagnostics
- Fluorescence-Based Sensors for Bioprocess Monitoring
- Practical Aspects of Fluorescence Analysis of Free Zinc Ion in Biological Systems: pZn for the Biologist
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