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Optical and Electrochemical Sensors for Biomedical Applications

Chemical and Microstructural Analyses in Design and Performance

  • 1st Edition - May 1, 2027
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Fabian I. Ezema, Fahad Usman, Rajan Jose
  • Language: English

Optical and Electrochemical Sensors for Biomedical Applications: Chemical and Microstructural Analyses in Design and Performance is an up-to-date and comprehensive reference resour… Read more

Description

Optical and Electrochemical Sensors for Biomedical Applications: Chemical and Microstructural Analyses in Design and Performance is an up-to-date and comprehensive reference resource in this rapidly evolving field. The book's focus is on the crucial importance that chemical and microstructural analyses play in biomedical sensor design and performance. The chapters delve deeply into the significance of microstructure, providing insights into how it influences sensor sensitivity, selectivity, and overall performance. With real-world examples, researchers will gain practical insights into the design and manufacture of sensors and their applications in diagnostics, healthcare, and medical devices.
The book takes a consolidated and practical approach, making it accessible to a wide audience, which will make it an ideal choice for those seeking a deeper understanding of sensor design across a broad range of biomedical applications.

Key features

  • Emphasis on materials aspects of biosensor design and microstructural analysis
  • Covers sensor technologies in pharmaceuticals, patient care, and drug discovery and analysis
  • Includes optical and electrochemical sensors in healthcare, diagnostics, and medical devices
  • Illustrates how to analyze and optimize microstructures for enhanced performance
  • Discusses emerging trends, potential challenges, and the future of sensor technologies in biomedicine and healthcare

Readership

Academic and industrial researchers, materials scientists and engineers, chemists, biomedical engineers, sensor technologists, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, and biomedical device manufacturers

Table of contents

1. Introduction to Optical and Electrochemical Sensors in Biomedical Applications

2. Fundamentals of Optical Sensors in Biomedicine

3. Advanced Technologies in Biosensing and Bioanalytical Detection: A data driven approach

4. Electrochemical Sensors in Biomedical Applications: Theory and Design

5. 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) Sensors in Biomedical Applications

6. Microstructure Analysis Techniques for Sensor Enhancement

7. Microstructure-Enhanced Sensors in Biomedical Imaging

8. Challenges and Emerging Trends in Biomedical Sensor Technology

9. Density functional theory (DFT) simulation and an approach to property-driven investigations in optical materials

10. Biomedical applications of electrochemical sensors based on nanomaterials

11. Nanostructured electrodes based on ZnO for electrochemical and biosensor applications in biomedicine

12. Electrochemical sensors for pharmacological and therapeutic applications using magnetic nanoparticles

13. Biomedical applications of conductive polymer-based sensors

14. Recent Advancements in optical sensors for biomedical diagnostics

15. Graphene as a biosensor electrode: A main path analysis

16. Synthesis, characteristics, and uses of graphene quantum dots in optical and electrochemical sensors

17. Application of plasmonic biosensors in the detection of disease biomarkers

18. Synthesis and characterization of polymeric nanocomposites for optical sensing applications

19. Conclusion and Future Directions

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 1, 2027
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Fabian I. Ezema

Fabian Ezema is a Professor at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and a visiting professor to NRS-EMT (MATECSS UNESCO Chair) in Varennes, Quebec, Canada and iThemba Labs South Africa. He is also a Fellow of UNESCO-UNISA South Africa Chair in Nanosciences and Nanotechnology (U2ACN2). His research interests are in several areas of materials science including synthesis and characterization of particles and thin film materials through chemical routes with emphasis on energy applications.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria

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Fahad Usman

Fahad Usman is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology at the Connecticut State Community College Norwalk, United States. He was a Senior Lecturer and the head of the Department of Physics, Al-Qalam University Katsina, Nigeria and a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Advanced Industrial Technology, University of Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia. Fahad was the Director of Institute of Semi-Arid Zone Studies and the pioneer Chairman, Committee for the University Inaugural Lectures, Seminars, Conferences and Public Lectures, Al-Qalam University Katsina. He has been working on the development of optical sensors for medical applications and novel optical materials since 2017 and has authored/co-authored over 45 Scopus/Web of Science (WoS) indexed journal publications including research articles and reviews. Fahad is a regular reviewer of many reputed international journals.

Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology, Connecticut State Community College Norwalk, Norwalk, United States

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Rajan Jose

Rajan Jose is Chair Professor of Energy and Battery Technology at Ming Chi University of Technology, Taiwan, and Senior Professor at Universiti Malaysia Pahang Al-Sultan Abdullah (UMPSA), Malaysia. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Nature journal Materials Circular Economy. He previously served as Dean of Research (Technology) at UMPSA and was also a member of the University's Senate and Graduate Council.

He earned his PhD from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Trivandrum, India, where his doctoral research focused on nanostructured perovskite ceramics for microwave and superconducting electronics. His research has contributed to the science and engineering of a wide range of materials, including inorganic and organic semiconductors, polymers, metals and alloys, molecular electronic materials, biomaterials, glasses, and glass ceramics.

Prior to joining UMPSA, he held research and scientific positions at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (India), AIST (Japan), Toyota Technological Institute (Japan), and the National University of Singapore (Singapore). His scholarly work spans renewable energy technologies, battery materials, sustainable materials, circular economy, data science, and artificial intelligence. He has authored numerous scientific publications, holds multiple patents, and has supervised researchers at postgraduate and postdoctoral levels. His research contributions have received international recognition within the materials science community.

His current research interests include renewable energy devices, sustainable materials, circular economy, data science, and artificial intelligence.

Affiliations and expertise
Chair Professor, Battery Research Center of Green Energy, Ming Chi University of Technology, New Taipei City, Taiwan