Lee A.P., Lee L.J. (Eds.) BioMEMS and Biomedical Nanotechnology: Volume I. Biological and Biomedical Nanotechnology

New York: Springer, 2006. — 531 p.The growing demand for nanoscale structures and devices in the biomedical field presents significant career opportunities for future generations. Various novel materials and technologies have been developed in recent years. There, however, lacks a comprehensive book to systematically address this broad spectrum of new science and technologies. This volume is intended to provide an introduction to nanoscale devices for biological and biomedical applications. Sixteen chapters are included in this volume experts in the field of the nanobiotechnology have contributed to this work. Thevolume is divided into three parts. Thefirst part, Synthetic Nanodevices for Biotechnology and Biomedicine; covers the fabrication and characterization techniques of representative nanoscale structures such as carbon nanotubes, micro/nanospheres and particles, nanopores and nanochannels, and macro or microscale structures containing two-dimensional and threedimensional nanoscale features made of polymers, silicon and other materials. The applications of these nanostructures and devices for biosensing, drug delivery and bioseparation are also introduced. The second part, Hybrid Synthetic and Biomolecular Nanodevices; focuses on the synthesis, interface structures, and medical applications of nanodevices made of biomolecule-polymer and biomolecule-inorganics hybrids. Finally, the third part, Computation, Simulation, and Informatics for Bionanodevices, provides nanoscale fluid and solid phase computation methodologies for selected biomedical applications.List of Contributors
ForewordBiomolecular Sensing for Cancer Diagnostics Using Carbon Nanotubes
Microspheres for Drug Delivery
Nanoscale Polymer Fabrication for Biomedical Applications
3D Micro- and Nanofabrication and Their Medical Application
Sacrificial Oxide Layer for Drug Delivery
Carbon Nanotube Biosensors
Characterization Methods for Quality Control of Nanopore and Nanochannel Membranes
Magnetic Nanoparticles for MR Imaging
Polymer Design for Nonviral Gene Delivery
Dip-Pen Technologies for Biomolecular Devices
Engineered Inorganic-Binding Polypeptides for Bionanotechnology
Dynamic Nanodevices Based on Protein Molecular Motors
Nanodevices in Biomedical Applications
Modeling Biomolecular Transport at the Nanoscale
Nanotechnology in Cancer Drug Therapy: A Biocomputational Approach
Nanomechanics and Tissue Pathology
About the Editors