Electrochemical Sensors, Biosensors and their Biomedical Applications

Xueji Zhang (Edited by), Huangxian Ju (Edited by), Joseph Wang (Edited by)

9780123737380, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 4 February 2008

616 pages, Approx. 190 illustrations (50 in full color)
23.4 x 19 x 3.4 cm, 1.24 kg

This book broadly reviews the modem techniques and significant applications of chemical sensors and biosensors. Chapters are written by experts in the field – including Professor Joseph Wang, the most cited scientist in the world and renowned expert on sensor science who is also co-editor. Each chapter provides technical details beyond the level found in typical journal articles, and explores the application of chemical sensors and biosensors to a significant problem in biomedical science, also providing a prospectus for the future.This book compiles the expert knowledge of many specialists in the construction and use of chemical sensors and biosensors including nitric oxide sensors, glucose sensors, DNA sensors, hydrogen sulfide sensors, oxygen sensors, superoxide sensors, immuno sensors, lab on chip, implatable microsensors, et al. Emphasis is laid on practical problems, ranging from chemical application to biomedical monitoring and from in vitro to in vivo, from single cell to animal to human measurement. This provides the unique opportunity of exchanging and combining the expertise of otherwise apparently unrelated disciplines of chemistry, biological engineering, and electronic engineering, medical, physiological.

Nitric Oxide (NO) Electrochemical Sensors
Biosensors for Pesticides
Electrochemical Glucose Biosensors
New Trends in Ion Selective Electrodes
Recent Developments in Electrochemical Immunoassays and Immunosensors
Superoxide Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors: Principle, Development and Applications
Detection of Charged Macromolecules by means of Field-Effect Devices (FEDs): Possibilities and Limitations
Electrochemical Sensors for the Determination of Hydrogen Sulfide Production in Biological Samples
Aspects of Recent Development of Immunosensors
Microelectrodes for In Vivo Determination of pH
Biochips-Fundamentals and Applications
Powering Fuel Cells through Biocatalysis
Chemical and Biological Sensors Based on Electroactive Inorganic Polycrystals
Nanoparticle-Based Biosensors and Bioassays
Electrochemical Sensors Based on Carbon Nanotubes
Biosensors Based on Immobilization of Biomolecules in Sol-gel Matrices
Biosensors Based on Direct Electron-Transfer of Protein.

Subject Areas: Biosensors [TCBS], Biotechnology [TCB], Technology: general issues [TB], Biochemistry [PSB], Biophysics [PHVN], Biomedical engineering [MQW]