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Biomolecular Electronics
Bioelectronics and the Electrical Control of Biological Systems and Reactions
1st Edition - April 3, 2014
Author: Paolo Facci
Hardback ISBN:9781455731428
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eBook ISBN:9781455731527
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Biomolecular Electronics – the electrical control of biological phenomena – is a scientific challenge that, once fully realized, will find a wide range of applications from electronics and computing to medicine and therapeutic techniques.This new arena of biomolecular electronics is approached using familiar concepts from many areas such as electrochemistry, device electronics and some mechanisms of gene expression level control. Practical techniques are explored by which electrical and electronic means can be used to control biological reactions and processes. Also, the current and future applications for this new and expanding field are discussed.This book is aimed at scientists and engineers involved in both research and commercial applications across fields including bioelectronics, bionanotechnology, electrochemistry and nanomedicine – providing a state-of-the-art survey of what's going on at the boundary between biology and electronic technology at the micro- and nano- scales, along with a suggestive insight into future possible developments.
Demystifies the science and applications of electrically-driven biological reactions
Explains how the techniques of bioelectronics and electrochemistry can be deployed as biological control technologies
Provides applications information for diverse areas from bio-electrochemistry to electrical control of gene expression levels
Scientists and engineers involved in R&D and commercialization of bionanotechnology, electrochemistry, bioelectronics, biophysics, micro/nanoelectronics, biosensors, lab-on-chip applications, nanomedicine
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Chapter 1. Biomolecular Electronics
1.0. What is biomolecular electronics?
1.1. Proteins and biomolecular electronics
1.2. Proteins and planar devices
1.3. The future of biomolecular electronics
1.4. A novel idea: electrical control of biomolecular systems
Chapter 2. Useful Notions in Electrochemistry
2.0. Charged surfaces in water
2.1. The Poisson-Boltzmann equation
2.2. Charged surfaces in electrolytic solutions
2.3. Potential and ion concentration away from a charged surface
2.4. Reactions at electrodes
2.5. Electrochemical tools
2.6. Electrochemical techniques
Chapter 3. Life and the Water-Based Environment
3.0. The peculiar chemical-physical properties of water
3.1. The hydrogen bond and the structure of water
3.2. The hydrophobic effect
3.3. The role of water in biology
3.4. Water and biomolecules
3.5. Biological reactions taking place in water
3.6. Biological reactions and phenomena involving the action of electric fields
3.7. Biological reactions and phenomena involving the transfer of electrons
Chapter 4. Applications of Electrochemistry to Redox Metalloproteins and Cofactors
4.0. Redox metalloprotein and cofactor electrochemistry
4.1. Redox metalloproteins
4.2. Redox cofactors
4.3. Driving redox reactions of freely diffusing molecules
4.4. Driving redox reactions of surface immobilized molecules