D. Nikolelis – Portable Biosensing of Food Toxicants and Environmental Pollutants (2013)

Автор: D. Nikolelis
Название книги: Portable Biosensing of Food Toxicants and Environmental Pollutants
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Экология
Страницы: 800
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

Features

Describes transducer schemes, including optical photonic crystal waveguide sensors and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy-based biosensors
Covers recognition elements, such as enzyme sensors, nucleic acid biosensors, antibody-based biosensors, aptasensors, and cell-based biosensors
Explores how nanotechnology is deployed in affordable, mass-produced sensors
Explains how to integrate these sensors into components and systems for mass market applications in environmental and food monitoring, such as quality assurance of dairy and meat products
Presents advances in the development of portable chemical sensors for rapidly detecting biotoxicants in the environment, including devices for real-time detection of toxicants used in bioterrorism, such as microbes, pathogens, toxins, and nervous gases
Summary

Biosensors are poised to make a large impact in environmental, food, and biomedical applications, as they clearly offer advantages over standard analytical methods, including minimal sample preparation and handling, real-time detection, rapid detection of analytes, and the ability to be used by non-skilled personnel. Covering numerous applications of biosensors used in food and the environment, Portable Biosensing of Food Toxicants and Environmental Pollutants presents basic knowledge on biosensor technology at a postgraduate level and explores the latest advances in chemical sensor technology for researchers.

By providing useful, state-of-the-art information on recent developments in biosensing devices, the book offers both newcomers and experts a roadmap to this technology. In the book, distinguished researchers from around the world show how portable and handheld nanosensors, such as dynamic DNA and protein arrays, enable rapid and accurate detection of environmental pollutants and pathogens.

The book first introduces the basic principles of biosensing for newcomers to the technology. It then explains how the integration of a “receptor” can provide analytically useful information. It also describes trends in biosensing and examines how a small-sized device can have portability for the in situ determination of toxicants. The book concludes with several examples illustrating how to determine toxicants in food and environmental samples.