Contents
Chapter 1: Basic Chemical and Biochemical Concepts
1.2 Energy and Chemical Reactions
Chapter 2: Cells and their Basic Building Blocks
2.4 Amino Acids, Polypeptides and Proteins
2.5 Nucleotides, Nucleic Acids, DNA, RNA and Genes
2.6 Cells and Pathogenic Bioparticles
Chapter 3: Basic Biophysical Concepts and Methods
3.2 Electrostatic Interactions
3.3 Hydrophobic and Hydration Forces
3.4 Osmolarity, Tonicity and Osmotic Pressure
3.5 Transport of Ions and Molecules across Cell Membranes
3.6 Electrochemical Gradients and Ion Distributions Across Membranes
3.7 Osmotic Properties of Cells
3.8 Probing the Electrical Properties of Cells
3.9 Membrane Equilibrium Potentials
3.10 Nernst Potential and Nernst Equation
3.11 The Equilibrium (Resting) Membrane Potential
3.12 Membrane Action Potential
Chapter 4: Spectroscopic Techniques
Chapter 5: Electrochemical Principles and Electrode Reactions
5.3 Electrochemical Cells and Electrode Reactions
5.4 Electrical Control of Electron Transfer Reactions
5.6 Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS)
6.3 Immobilisation of the Biosensing Agent
6.7 Conductometric and Impedimetric Biosensors
6.8 Sensors Based on Antibody–Antigen Interaction
6.12 Biocompatibility of Implantable Sensors
Chapter 7: Basic Sensor Instrumentation and Electrochemical Sensor Interfaces
7.5 Limitations of Operational Amplifiers
7.6 Instrumentation for Electrochemical Sensors
7.7 Impedance Based Biosensors
Chapter 8: Instrumentation for Other Sensor Technologies
8.2 Temperature Sensors and Instrumentation
8.3 Mechanical Sensor Interfaces
8.4 Optical Biosensor Technology
8.5 Transducer Technology for Neuroscience and Medicine
Chapter 9: Microfluidics: Basic Physics and Concepts
9.3 Fluids Treated as a Continuum
9.7 Continuum versus Molecular Model
Chapter 10: Microfluidics: Dimensional Analysis and Scaling
10.4 Applying Nondimensional Parameters to Practical Flow Problems
10.5 Characteristic Time Scales
10.6 Applying Micro- and Nano-Physics to the Design of Microdevices
Appendix B: Values of Fundamental Physical Constants