Electrochemical Sensors in Bioanalysis

R. Stefan, F. van Staden and H.Y. Aboul-Eniein
Marcel Dekker
2001
288 pp.
ISBN 0-8247-0662-5
US$150.00 hardback

Keywords Electrochemistry, Sensors

Electrochemical Sensors in Bioanalysis provides a concise review of the latest methods and materials used to produce electrochemical sensors. Comprising 15 chapters, this informative reference text reads more like a technical dictionary than a textbook.

Chapter 1 introduces Electrochemical sensor design and addresses design considerations for solid and liquid membrane electrodes; modified paste electrodes; gas sensors; biosensors; immunosensors; sensor arrays; and microelectrodes. New theoretical concepts for ion-selective membrane electrodes are presented in chapter 2 and includes discussion of the configuration of membrane-sol interface; charge transfer across the membrane-solution interface; and the main types of equilibria which are taking place at the membrane-solution interface.

Response characteristics of electrochemical sensors are discussed in chapter 3, while chapter 4 presents Analytical methods that use electrochemical sensors . The following two chapters discuss Applications of electrochemical sensors in the analysis on inorganic substances , and Applications of electrochemical sensors in the analysis of organic substances , respectively.

Chapter 7, The assay of DNA using electrochemical sensors , presents biosensors and electron transfer-electrochemical sensors for the assay of DNA. Electrochemical sensors used in the diagnosis of HIV , and Enantioselective electrochemical sensors are introduced in chapters 8 and 9, respectively. Subjects addressed include ion-selective membrane electrodes, biosensors and immunosensors utilised for the qualification of HIV degree of infection; molecular recognition of chiral discrimination; and applications of enantioselective electrochemical sensors in bioanalysis.

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