Optical biosensors : present and future

Part 1 Optical Biosensors - the Present. Optrode-based fiber optic biosensors Evanescent wave fiber optic biosensors Planar waveguides for fluorescence biosensors Flow immunosensor Time resolved fluorescence Electrochemiluminescence Surface plasmon resonance biosensors The resonant mirror optical biosensor Interferometric biosensors. Part 2 Optical Biosensors - The Future: Genetic engineering of signaling molecules Artificial receptors for chemosensors Nucleic acids for reagentless biosensors New materials based on imprinted polymers and their application in optical sensors Optically based sol-gel biosensor materials Membrane-based biosensors Pebble nanosensors for real time intracellular chemical imaging Colloidal semiconductor quantum dot conjugates in biosensing Soft lithography and microfluidics.