Molecular bioelectronics /

Main Author: Nicolini, Claudio A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, ©1996.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • List of Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • 1 INTRODUCTION
  • 2 ACTIVE BIOELEMENTS
  • Organic compounds
  • Proteins
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Lipids
  • DNA
  • Whole cells
  • 3 TECHNOLOGIES
  • Langmuir-Blodgett and its modifications
  • Film Characterization
  • Langmuir-Blodgett Method
  • Langmuir-Schaefer Method
  • Is the Solution Structure and Function Preserved at the Air- Water Interface?
  • Self
  • Assembly
  • High Density Subphase Method
  • Lipid Monolayer Method
  • Scanning microscopy
  • Basic Principles of STM
  • Basic Principles of AFM
  • Imaging Biopolymers and Biostructures
  • Biomolecular Information Read-out and Interfacing
  • Molecular Manipulation
  • Light-Directed Chemical Synthesis
  • Ab Initio Molecular Design
  • Multiple Electron Transfer Pathways
  • Self-Exchange
  • Cross-Exchange
  • 4 BIOELECTRONIC MATERIALS
  • Heat-Proof and Long Range Storage Thin Protein Films
  • Structure and Function
  • Electron Transfer and Redox
  • Role of Water and 2D Order
  • Thermostable Thin Lipid Films
  • Alternating Bilayers of Valinomycin and Chemically Modified Bipolar Lipids from Archaea
  • Fullerene and Other Organic Thin Films
  • Deposition of Uniform Fullerene Films by LB Technique
  • HeptadecyIcarboxymethyI-BEDT-TTF
  • Conductive LB Films
  • 2D Crystals
  • Understanding 2D Crystallization
  • Assisting 2D CrystaIIiziltion
  • LB Thin Films Versus 2D Crystal Arrays
  • Long Range Storage and theriiial stability
  • Array Homogeneity and Size
  • Recombinant versus Wild type
  • 5 BIOELECTRONIC SENSORS
  • Transducers and Biosensing Elements
  • Electrochemical Transduction
  • Optical Transduction
  • Piezoelectric Transducers
  • Calorimetric Transducers
  • Integration of Transducers and Bio-Elements
  • The PAB System
  • Modelling of the Transducer Response
  • Experimental Set-Up
  • Applications
  • Future Perspective
  • 6 BIOELECTRONIC MOLECULAR DEVICES
  • Monoelectronic Transistors
  • Bioactuators
  • Photovoltaic Cells
  • DNA and Peptide Sequencing Microchips
  • Drug Screening Chip
  • Optical Filtering and Holography
  • 7 PROTEIN AUTOMATA: YEAR ZERO
  • 8 CONCLUSION
  • References.