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Nanotechnology and Biosensors

  • 1st Edition - June 19, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Dimitrios P Nikolelis, Georgia Paraskevi Nikoleli
  • Language: English

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Description

Nanotechnology and Biosensors shows how nanotechnology is used to create affordable, mass-produced, portable, small sized biosensors to directly monitor environmental pollutants. In addition, it provides information on their integration into components and systems for mass market applications in food analysis, environmental monitoring and health diagnostics. Nanotechnology has led to a dramatic improvement in the performance, sensitivity and selectivity of biosensors. As metal-oxide and carbon nanostructures, gold and magnetite nanoparticles, and the integration of dendrimers in biosensors using nanotechnology have contributed greatly in making biosensors more effective and affordable on a mass-market level, this book presents a timely resource on the topic.

Key features

  • Highlights nanotechnology-based approaches to the detection of enzyme inhibitors, direct enzymatic and microbial detection of metabolites, and nutrients using biosensors
  • Includes examples on how nanotechnology has lead to improvements in the construction of portable, selective and sensitive biosensing devices
  • Offers thorough coverage of biomarker/biosensor interaction for the rapid detection of toxicants and pollutants

Readership

Materials Scientists and Bioengineers who want to learn more about how nanotechnology can lead to more efficient, cheaper biosensors

Table of contents

1. Prototype biosensing devices: design and microfabrication based on nanotechnological tools for the rapid in the field detection of food toxicants and environmental pollutants

2. Biosensors for intracellular and less invasive sensors based on nanostructured metal oxides

3. Carbon electrodes in electrochemical analysis of biomolecules and bioactive substances: roles of surface structures and chemical groups

4. Carbon based nanomaterials for electrochemical DNA sensing

5. Gold nanoparticle-based technologies in photothermal/photodynamic treatment: the challenges and prospects

6. Encapsulated Magnetite Nanoparticles: Preparation and Application as Contrast Agents for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

7. Metal nanomaterial-assisted aptasensors for emerging pollutants detection

8. Impedimetric aptamer biosensing employing nanomaterials

9. Metal-oxide nanostructures for energy harvesting and sensing

10. Electroanalytical bioplatforms based on carbon nanostructures as new tools for diagnosis

11. Dendrimers integrated biosensors for healthcare applications

12. Electrochemical DNA and aptasensors based on nanomaterials for medical diagnostics

Review quotes

"This text covers a lot of ground and will be of interest to those wishing for a general overview of the range of nanomaterials used for biosensing in environmental, food and medical sensing applications. There is some repetition of introduction and technical detail between the chapters which allows them to be read in isolation and all are well referenced for those looking for more detail in a particular application."—Johnson Matthey Technology Review

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: June 19, 2018
  • Language: English

About the editors

DN

Dimitrios P Nikolelis

Dimitrios P. Nikolelis is Professor. of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry at the University of Athens, Greece. The co-ordinator of several Europe- and NATO-wide research projects focusing on biosensors and nanotechnology, and has also served as Editor-in-Chief of five peer-reviewed journals. Georgia-Paraskevi Nikoleli is based at the Laboratory of Inorganic & Analytical Chemistry, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Athens, Greece. Her research is in the area of nanotechnology, looking at multifunctional new materials and the production of processes and new devices.
Affiliations and expertise
Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Athens and Laboratory of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, School of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Sciences, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

GP

Georgia Paraskevi Nikoleli

Georgia-Paraskevi Nikoleli is based at the Laboratory of Inorganic & Analytical Chemistry, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Athens, Greece, where she also obtained the PhD. She is currently working as a lecturer in Technological Institute (TEI) of Athens, Greece. Her research is in the area of nanotechnology, looking at multifunctional new materials and the production of processes and new devices
Affiliations and expertise
Laboratory of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, School of Chemical Engineering, University of Athens, Greece

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