Förch R., Schönherr H., Jenkins A.T.A. (Eds.) Surface Design: Applications in Bioscience and Nanotechnology

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2009. – 532 p. – ISBN: 3527407898.This carefully selected balance of tutorial-like review chapters and advanced research covers hot topics in the field of biointerfaces, biosensing, nanoparticles at interfaces, and functionalized quantum dots. It also includes chapters arising from non-published work with topics such as surface design and their applications, as well as new developments in analytical tools for materials science and life science.
Based on the very close and complementary collaboration of three distinguished leading research groups, this book highlights recent advances in the field ranging from synthesis and fabrication of organic and polymeric materials, surface and interface science to advanced analytical methods. It thus addresses new concepts in micro- and nanofabrication, bio-nanotechnology, biosensors and the necessary compositional and structural analysis. Particular attention is paid throughout to complex hierarchical interface architectures and possible applications of the chemical and physical methodologies discussed, covering bio-diagnostics, novel biosensors and adhesion science.
With its unique combination of expertise from chemistry, physics, biology, surface science and engineering, this is a valuable companion for students, practitioners and established experts.Tutorial Reviews
Coupling Chemistries for the Modification and Functionalization of Surfaces to Create Advanced Biointerfaces
Tutorial Review: Surface Plasmon Resonance-Based Biosensors
Tutorial Review: Surface Modification and Adhesion
Tutorial Review: Modern Biological Sensors
Functional Thin Film Architecture and Platforms Based on Polymers
Controlled Block-Copolymer Thin-Film Architectures
Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Brushes
Cyanate Ester Resins as Thermally Stable Adhesives for PEEK
Structured and Functionalized Polymer Thin-Film Architectures
Biointerfaces, Biosensing, and Molecular Interactions
Surface Chemistry in Forensic-Toxicological Analysis
Modification of Surfaces by Photosensitive Silanes
Solid-Supported Bilayer Lipid Membranes
Interaction of Structured and Functionalized Polymers with Cancer Cells
Fabrication and Application of Surface-Tethered Vesicles
Plasma-Polymerized Allylamine Thin Films for DNA Sensing
Fabrication and Application of Surface-Tethered Vesicles
Plasma-Polymerized Allylamine Thin Films for DNA Sensing
Nanoparticles and Nanocontainers
Defined Colloidal 3D Architectures
Nanoparticles at the Interface: The Electrochemical and Optical Properties of Nanoparticles Assembled into 2D and 3D Structures at Planar Electrode Surfaces
Surface Engineering of Quantum Dots with Designer Ligands
Stimuli-Responsive Capsules
Nanoporous Thin Films as Highly Versatile and Sensitive Waveguide Biosensors
Surface and Interface Analysis
Stretching and Rupturing Single Covalent and Associating Macromolecules by AFM-Based Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy
Quantitative Lateral Force Microscopy
Long-Range Surface Plasmon Enhanced Fluorescence Spectroscopy as a Platform for Biosensors
Appendices: Surface Analytical Tools
Material Structure and Surface Analysis
Atomic Force Microscopy
Contact Angle Goniometry
Ellipsometry
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
Impedance Spectroscopy
Scanning Electron Microscopy
Surface Plasmon Resonance
Optical Waveguide Spectroscopy (OWS) – lm-Thick Films
Waveguide Mode Spectroscopy (WaMs) – nm-Thick Films
X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS)