This volume summarizes the state-of-the-art technologies, key advances and future trends in the field of label-free biosensing. It provides detailed insights into the different types of solid-state, label-free biosensors, their underlying transducer principles, advanced materials utilized, device-fabrication techniques and various applications. The book offers graduate students, academic researchers, and industry professionals a comprehensive source of information on all facets of label-free biosensing and the future trends in this flourishing field.
Highlights of the subjects covered include label-free biosensing with:
· semiconductor field-effect devices such as nanomaterial-modified capacitive electrolyte-insulator-semiconductor structures, silicon nanowire transistors, III-nitride semiconductor devices and light-addressable potentiometric sensors
· impedimetric biosensors using planar and 3D electrodes
· nanocavity and solid-state nanopore devices
· carbon nanotube and graphene/graphene oxide biosensors
· electrochemical biosensors using molecularly imprinted polymers
· biomimetic sensors based on acoustic signal transduction
· enzyme logic systems and digital biosensors based on the biocomputing concept
· heat-transfer as a novel transducer principle
· ultrasensitive surface plasmon resonance biosensors
· magnetic biosensors and magnetic imaging devices