Optical Biosensors

Optical Biosensors, 2ed descriptions of applications, and evaluates the benefits and deficiencies of each. It also addresses future developments and is able to provide new capabilities in the future. The book is for scientists and researchers.

* Comprehensive analysis and review of the underlying principles by optical biosensors
* Updates and information on the latest developments
* Evaluates current methods

Part I: Optical Biosensors: Today - Optrode-Based Fiber Optic Biosensors (Bio-Optrode) (I. Biran, X. Yu and DR Walt); Evanescent Wave Fiber Optic Biosensors (GP Anderson and C. Rowe Taitt); Planar Waveguides for Fluorescence Biosensors (K. Sapsford, CR Taitt and FS Ligler); Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensors (J. Homola, SS Yee and D. Myszka); Flow Immunosensors (AW Kusterbeck and DA Blake); Fluorescence Lifetime Biosensing: Entering the Mainstream (RB Thompson); Electrochemiluminescence (MM Richter); Plasmonic SERS Molecular Sentinels: A New Biosensing Approach (T. Vo-Dinh); Part II: Optical Biosensors: Tomorrow - Cavity Ring-down Biosensing (PB Tarsa and KK Lehmann); Cantilever Biosensors (M. Alvarez, K. Zinoviev, M. Moreno and LM Lechuga); Protein Microarray Technologies - With an Array of Applications (TO Joos, J. Bachmann and JW Jacobson); Single Domain Antibodies: Rugged Recognition Elements for Tomorrow's Biosensors (JL Liu, GP Anderson, A. Hayhurst and ER Goldman); Nucleic Acids for Reagentless Biosensors (E. Jeong Cho, JW Lee, M. Rajendran and AD Ellington); Imprinted Polymers and their Application in Optical Sensors (SA Piletsky and APF Turner); Nanoparticles for Biosensors (H. Kang, M. O'Donohue, L. Wang, YCY Cao and W. Tan); Fluorescence-based Intracellular Sensing (IL Medintz and JB Delehanta); Microfluidics (AD Stroock); Index.