Biosensors Nanotechnology

A new emerging field that combines nanoscale materials and biosensor technology is receiving increased attention. Nanostructures have been used to achieve direct wiring of biosensing elements to electrode surfaces, to promote bio-reactions, to impose nanobarcodes on biomaterials, and to amplify the signal from bio-recognition events. Nanomaterials based biosensors have found wide spread applications in the environmental and medical applications for their sensitivity, specificity, rapidity, simplicity, and cost-effectiveness. In the same pursuit, Biosensor Nanotechnology provides detailed review chapters on a range of nanostructures such as nanoparticles, nanowires, nanotubes, nanoribbons, nanorods, nanobelts and nanosheets in the construction of biosensors with set applications of biosensors nanotechnology for biological and chemical analyses, food safety industry, biomedical diagnostics, clinical detection, and environmental monitoring. The senior contributors write on the following topics:

• ZnO and graphene microelectrode applications in biosensing
• Assembly of polymers/metal nanoparticles
• Gold nanoparticle-based electrochemical biosensors
• Impedimetric DNA sensing employing nanomaterials
• Graphene and carbon nanotube based biosensors
• The-state-of-art of nanomedicine
• Computational nanochemistry study
• BFPF green fluorescent protein chromophore
• Biosynthesis of metal nanoparticles
• Ionic discotic liquid crystals
• Role of advanced materials as nanosensors in water treatment
• Bioconjugated-nanoporous gold films in electrochemical biosensors
• Combination of molecular imprinting and nanotechnology
• Recent development of fiber reinforced composite materials
• Principal and properties of multiferroics and ceramics

Ashutosh Tiwari is an Associate Professor at the Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre, Linkoping University, Sweden; Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Materials Letters; Secretary General, International Association of Advanced Materials; a materials chemist and also a docent in applied physics at Linkoping University, Sweden. He has published more than 350 articles, patents, and conference proceedings in the field of materials science and technology and has edited/authored more than fifteen books on the advanced state-of-the-art of materials science. He is a founding member of the Advanced Materials World Congress and the Indian Materials Congress.

Anthony P.F. Turner is currently Head of Division FM-Linkoping University’s new Centre for Biosensors and Bioelectronics. His previous thirty-five year academic career in the UK culminated in the positions of Principal (Rector) of Cranfield University and Distinguished Professor of Biotechnology. Professor Turner has more than 600 publications and patents in the field of biosensors and biomimetic sensors and is best known for his role in the development of glucose sensors for home-use by people with diabetes. He published the first textbook on biosensors in 1987 and is Editor-In-Chief of the principal journal in his field, Biosensors & Bioelectronics, which he co-founded in 1985.