Special Issue "BioMEMS and Advanced Analytical Sensors for Biological Applications"
QuicklinksA special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 July 2012
Special Issue Editors
Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Cristina E. Davis
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Website: http://mae.ucdavis.edu/faculty/davisc
E-Mail: cedavis@ucdavis.edu
Interests: BioMEMS, miniature chemical sensors, chemometrics, metabolomics
Guest Editor
Dr. Reza Ehsani
Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida, Citrus Research and Education Center, Lake Alfred, FL 33850, USA
Website: http://www.crec.ifas.ufl.edu/academics/faculty/ehsani/ehsani_reza.shtml
E-Mail: ehsani@ufl.edu
Interests: Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy, Visible-near infrared spectroscopy, Mid-infrared spectroscopy (Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy), Fluorescence spectroscopy, Chemometrics, Pattern recognition and classification, Fluorescence imaging, Multispectral imaging, Thermal imaging (All in agricultural production and processing)
Guest Editor
Dr. Alexander Aksenov
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
E-Mail: aaaksenov@ucdavis.edu
Interests: Mass spectrometry, MS instrumentation and applications in chemistry and biochemistry, ion mobility methods development and applications, instrumental analytical chemistry
Guest Editor
Dr. Mike Schivo
Internal Medicine: Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
E-Mail: mschivo@ucdavis.edu
Interests: noninvasive diagnostics, metabolomic analysis, biomarker discovery, airway disorders including asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and airway host cell responses to infection
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The “Sensors” journal calls for papers for a special issue of “BioMEMS and Advanced Analytical Sensors for Biological Applications”. We invite papers that study novel applications of portable MEMS-based sensors in areas such as analytical chemistry, biology, agriculture and medicine. We also invite papers that generate new theoretical and empirical insights in the area of BioMEMS sensor design and manufacturing. We invite scholars from multiple disciplines, both natural sciences and engineering to this special issue. All submission will be subject to the peer-review process. We expect this special issue to contribute to significant cross-discipline idea exchange and to develop research trends in bioinstrumentation design and applications.
Prof. Dr. Cristina E. Davis
Dr. Alexander Aksenov
Dr. Mike Schivo
Dr. Reza Ehsani
Guest Editors
Submission
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Keywords
- bioMEMS;
- MEMS manufacturing;
- biosensors;
- point-of-care diagnostics;
- bioinstrumentation;
- portable sensors;
- analytical method development;
- agricultural diagnostics;
- analytical sensors
Published Papers
Planned Papers
Authors: Alexandra Oliveros-Villalba 1, Anthony Guiseppi-Elie 2 and Stephen E. Saddow 1,3
Affiliations: 1 Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa, Florida 33620, USA; E-Mail: saddow@usf.edu
2 Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips (C3B), Clemson University Advanced Materials Center, 100 Technology Drive, Anderson, South Carolina 29625, USA
3 Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA
Abstract: Silicon carbide (SiC) has been around for more than 100 years as an industrial material and has found wide and varied applications because of its highly robust electrical and thermal properties. A wide bandgap semiconductor, SiC exists in numerous crystal forms, called polytypes, each of which has unique electrical, optical and biological properties. As a direct consequence there has been increased attention on SiC as a viable material for biomedical applications. In this article we review the potential of SiC for application as a bio-transducer in advanced biosensors. Among these applications are those where SiC is used as a substrate material, taking advantage of its robust surface chemical, tribological and electrical properties, such as strong needles for myocardial and organ transplantation monitoring, electrochemical electrodes for DNA immobilization, superoxide biosensors, insulin detection and porous membranes for protein filtration. In addition, its potential for integration with MOS technology and for those applications where SiC is used as an active material, make it an ideal material for micro-device fabrication. For example heterostructures such as self assembled monolayers/SiC for biomolecule immobilization, ZnO/SiC and AlN/SiC are some examples of the ability to integrate FET and resonator devices on the same chip for chemical biosensors. This review highlights the critical properties of SiC for application as a biosensor material and reviews recent works that use SiC as an active or passive material in bio-transducers.
Last update: 18 May 2012