Nanodevices for the Life Sciences (Nanotechnologies for the Life Sciences) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3527313842 ISBN 13: 9783527313846

Publisher: Wiley-VCH, 2006

Synopsis

This volume is the first to combine in one book both nanodevice assembly from biomaterials as well as nanodevices of non-biological materials for use in the life sciences, showing how both kinds can be used in the context of nanoscale research. As such, it covers the important material classes for device assembly -- fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, kinesine microtubules -- as well as a wide range of applications, including sensory systems, analytics, bioelectronics, drug delivery, and bioNEMS. The result is a systematic coverage of all stages of research and development: physics and fundamentals, modeling, device fabrication strategies, material aspects, and applications.

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About the Author

Challa Kumar is currently the Group Leader of Nanofabrication at the Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD), Baton Rouge, USA. His research interests are in developing novel synthetic methods for functional nanomaterials and innovative therapeutic, diagnostic and sensory tools based on nanotechnology. He has eight years of industrial R&D experience working for Imperial Chemical Industries and United Breweries prior to joining CAMD. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, an international peer reviewed journal published by American Scientific Publishers, and the series editor for the ten-volume book series Nanotechnologies for the Life Sciences (NtLS) published by Wiley-VCH. He worked at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Munich, Germany, as a post doctoral fellow and at the Max Planck Institute for Carbon Research in Mulheim, Germany, as an invited scientist. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in synthetic organic chemistry from Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prashanti Nilayam, India.

From the Back Cover

The Series
Nanotechnologies for the Life Sciences (NtLS) is the first comprehensive source covering the convergence of materials and life sciences on the nanoscale, a wide field of research which brings together the main technology drive of the 21st century and existing, multibillion dollar markets.

Written by international experts describing the various facets of nanofabrication, the ten volumes of NtLS provide the underlying nanotechnologies for the design, creation and characterization of medical, biological and cybernetic applications. Each volume addresses in detail one particular facet of the field.

Tailor-made nanomaterials find widespread new opportunities in diagnostic and monitoring microdevices, microsurgery tools and instruments, tissue engineering, drug delivery or artificial organs, and many more. Making information available from all kinds of specialized sources throughout the disciplines involved, NtLS is essential reading for all scientists working in this field from medicine and biology through chemistry, materials science and physics to engineering.

This Volume
Volume 4 covers all important aspects of nanodevice fabrication from both artificial as well as natural biological materials for purposes and applications in the life sciences. The specific needs and tools of the disciplines involved, materials and device engineering on the one hand and molecular biology and chemistry on the other, are illustrated and strategies are shown how to bring them together for successful bionanodevice creation.


From the Contents
? Mathematical and Computational Modeling, Nanolithography, and Fabrication
? Self-assembly and Bio-directed Approaches for Nanodevices
? Nanodevices from CNTs, Fullerenes, DNA, G Protein-coupled Receptors, and Kinesin-microtubules
? Applications as Biosensors, Bioanalytics, BioNEMS, Drug Delivery Devices, and Nanobioelectronics


Forthcoming Volumes
Nanomaterials - Toxicology, Health and Environmental Issues
Nanomaterials for Cancer Therapy
Nanomaterials for Cancer Diagnosis
Nanomaterials for Biosensors
Tissue, Cell and Organ Engineering
Nanomaterials for Medical Diagnosis and Therapy

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-VCH
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3527313842
• ISBN 13: 9783527313846
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 489
• Editor: Kumar Challa S. S. R.