The demand for portable and wearable chemical or biosensors and their expeditious
development in recent years has created a scientific challenge in terms of their continuous …

Metal ions are essential to many chemical, biological, and environmental processes. In the
past two decades, many DNA-based metal sensors have emerged. While the main …

Isothermal amplification of nucleic acids is a simple process that rapidly and efficiently
accumulates nucleic acid sequences at constant temperature. Since the early 1990s …

The widespread use of molecular machines in biology has long suggested that great
rewards could come from bridging the gap between synthetic molecular systems and the …

Rapid and high precision detection of toxic metal ions is one of the chief requirements today
to combat environment pollution. Gold nanoparticles play a key role in this by assisting the …

The two modes presented in Chap. 2 and 3 require that the two electrodes must be
interconnected. In practice, if one part of the contact media is a freely moving object, such as …

This work explored the particulate ligand impregnated highly ordered mesoporous silica
based optical nanocomposite material for the sensitive and selective detection and removal …

Pesticides are meant to control and destroy the pests and weeds. They are classified into
different categories on the basis their origin and type of pest they target. Chemical pesticides …

Bio-inspired polymeric nanochannel (also referred as nanopore)-based biosensors have
attracted considerable attention on account of their controllable channel size and shape …

DNA is one of the most fascinating biopolymers. Besides its central role as carrier of genetic
information and translation of the genetic code into proteins, DNA holds great promise as a …