Chemical Sensors and Biosensors (eBook)

Technological needs for chemical, ionic and biological species
detection are giving rise to continuous research and development in
physico-chemistry and biology. The constant progress being made in
the theoretical and technological aspects concerning studies and
developments of chemical sensors, biosensors and biochips is
presented in this book by different scientists and professors from
different universities and constitutes an updating of the state of
the art for chemical sensors, biosensors and biochips.

This book places a large emphasis on interaction between chemical
and biological species, in a gaseous or liquid state, and details
mineral and biological materials acting as sensitive elements. The
role of electrical, electrochemical, piezoelectric and optical
transducers in detection mechanisms are presented through their
developments and from a performance point-of-view. Micro-reactors,
nanotechnologies and flexible substrates, are considered in
relation to their role in neural networks.

Contents

1. Chemical and Biological Recognition, Nicole
Jaffrezic-Renault.

2. Adsorption Phenomena, René Lalauze.

3. Microcantilever Transduction, Isabelle Dufour.

4. Piezoelectric Transduction (QCM), Hubert Perrot.

5. Metal Oxide Gas Sensors, Christophe Pijolat.

6. Molecular Material-based Conductimetric Gas Sensors, Marcel
Bouvet.

7. Responses and Electrical Properties of Gas Microsensors, Khalifa
Aguir.

8. Gas Microsensor Technology, Philippe Menini.

9. Multisensors: Measurements and Behavior Models, Philippe
Breuil.

10. Development of Microtechnologies for the Realization of
Chemical, Biochemical and/or Biological

Microsensors, Pierre Temple-Boyer.

11. Development of Micro-preconcentrators for the Detection of
Gaseous Species at Trace Level, Jean-Paul Viricelle.

12. Microfluidics: Manipulation of Nanovolume Samples, Louis
Renaud.

13. Electrochemical Biosensors, Chantal Gondran.

14. Fiber-optic Biosensors, Neso Sojic.

15. In Vivo Analyses with Electrochemical Microsensors,
Stéphane Arbault.

16. Microbial Biosensors for Environmental Applications,
Gérald Thouand and Marie José Durand.

17. Biofuel Cells, Serge Cosnier.