Optical Sensors Industrial Environmental and Diagnostic Applications [Hardcover]

This interesting book covers latest aspects of a highly sophisticated technology; results treated in critical detail; demonstrates applicability of this technology to practical problems in process control, biochip methods, clinical analysis, environmental sciences

Optical sensor technology has reached a level of technological maturity that makes it a promising candidate for applications to specific sensing challenges including those in environmental monitoring, in process control (particularly in biotechnology), in clinical assays where low-cost one-way sensing elements are needed, and in other areas. Optical sensors can be used as fiber optic microsensors, as planar coatings in bioreactors, in microtiterplate format, in disposable single-shot devices, and as planar membranes that can be imaged using sensitive cameras. The spectral range extends from the UV to the infrared, and from absorption to emission and to surface plasmon resonance. Hence, a variety of schemes are conceivable, and this first volume of the Springer Series on Chemical Sensors and Biosensors gives a state-of-the-art description of this highly sophisticated but very promising technology.

Otto Wolfbeis: Optical Sensor Technology until the Year 2000: A view back (otto.wolfbeis@chemie.uni-regensburg.de ).-M.E.Diaz-Garcia & R.Badia: Molecularly Imprinted Polymers for Optical Sensing Devices (medg@sauron.quimica..uniovi.es).-Gerhard Mohr: Chromogenic and fluorogenic reactands: New indicator dyes for monitoring amines, alcohols and aldehydes (gerhard.mohr@uni-jena.de).-C.Preininger & U.Sauer: Design, quality control and normalization of biosensor chips (claudia.preininger@arcs.ac.at).-F.Chuang & B.W.Colston Rapid, Multiplex Optical Biodetection for Point-of-Care Applications (colston1@poptop.llnl.gov).-T.Vo-Dinh & G.Griffin Multifunctional Biochips for Medical Diagnostics and Pathogen Detection (vodinh@ornl.gov).-J.Homoll#