Portable Biosensing of Food Toxicants and Environmental Pollutants
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.
Table of Contents
Photonic Crystal Waveguide Sensing
J.S. Skibina, A.V. Malinin, A.A. Zanishevskaya, and V.V. Tuchin
Electrochemical Biosensor
Madalina M. Barsan, M. Emilia Ghica, and Christopher M.A. Brett
Piezoelectric Sensors
Petr Skládal and Tibor Hianik
Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering–Based Biosensors
Ilya N. Kurochkin, Andrey K. Sarychev, Ilya A. Ruzhikov, Igor A. Budashov, Sergey S. Maklakov, Sergey O. Boyarintsev, and Andrey N. Lagarkov
Enzymatic Biosensors
Anastasios Economou
Antibody-Based Biosensors
Boris B. Dzantiev and Anatoly V. Zherdev
Ion Channel Switch- and Lipid Film-Based Biosensors
Tibor Hianik, Dimitrios P. Nikolelis, and Georgia-Paraskevi Nikoleli
Oligonucleotide and Nucleic Acid–Based Biosensors
Ilaria Palchetti
De Novo DNA Synthesis and Its Biosensor Detection
Anatoly N. Reshetilov and Lyudmila A. Zheleznaya
Aptasensors: The New Trends
Audrey Sassolas and Jean-Louis Marty
Tissue, Microorganisms, Organelles, and Cell-Based Biosensors
Theodoros Varzakas, Georgia-Paraskevi Nikoleli, and Dimitrios P. Nikolelis
Nanotechnology and Nanofabrication Applications in Chemical Sensing
Magnus Willander and Zafar H. Ibupoto
Bioelectronic Tongues
Manel del Valle, Xavier Cetó, and Manuel Gutiérrez-Capitán
Molecularly Imprinted Polymer-Based Biosensors
Mihrican Muti and Arzum Erdem
Lab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidic Technology
Nikolaos Tzamtzis, Georgia-Paraskevi Nikoleli, Theodoros Varzakas, Dimitris P. Nikolelis, Vassilios N. Psychoyios, Nikolas Psaroudakis, and Stelios Liodakis
Biosensors in Quality Assurance of Dairy Products
María Isabel Pividori and Salvador Alegret
Water-Soluble Vitamin and Drug Residue Determination
Andreea Olaru and Camelia Bala
Optical Biosensors in Food Safety and Control
Theodoros Varzakas, Georgia-Paraskevi Nikoleli, and Nikolaos Tzamtzis
Biosensors in Express Control of Quality Assurance of Products
Nickolaj F. Starodub, Julia O. Ogorodnijchuk, Nelja F. Slishek, Mykola Mel’nichenko, Inna V. Pylypenko, and Ljudmila N. Pylypenko
Efficiencies of Biosensors in Environmental Monitoring
Nickolaj F. Starodub
Application of Biosensors on Air Pollution Monitoring
Vagelis Bakeas
Oligonucleotide and DNA Microarrays as Versatile Tools for
Pingarrón
Biosensors for Pesticides and Foodborne Pathogens
Gennady A. Evtugyn
Micro- and Nanopatterning for Bacteria- and Virus-Based Electrochemical DNA Biosensors in Food Safety: Determination of Phenolic Compounds and Antioxidant Capacity in Foods and Beverages
Gennady A. Evtugyn and Anna V. Porfireva
Biosensors in Quality of Meat Products
Theodoros Varzakas, Georgia Paraskevi Nikoleli, and Nikolaos Tzamtzis
Microbial Cells and Enzymes for Assaying the Fermentation Processes of Alcohol Production: Starch, Glucose, Ethanol, BOD
Anatoly N. Reshetilov, V.A. Arlyapov, M.G. Zaitsev, and V.A. Alferov
Biosensors in the Control of Biochemical Quantities in the Diagnostics of Diseases
Nickolaj F. Starodub
