Bioinorganic Platforms for Sensing, Biomimicry, and Energy Catalysis

Nanoporous Platforms for Cellular Sensing and Delivery

In recent years, rapid advancements have been made in the biomedical applications of micro and nanotechnology. While the focus of such technology has primarily been on in vitro analytical and diagnostic tools, more recently, in vivo therapeutic and sensing applications have gained attention. This paper describes the creation of monodisperse nanoporous, biocompatible, silicon membranes as a plat...

Bioinorganic Chemistry Bioinorganic Chemistry

Dendritic Fibrous Nanosilica for Catalysis, Energy Harvesting, Carbon Dioxide Mitigation, Drug Delivery, and Sensing

Morphology-controlled nanomaterials such as silica play a crucial role in the development of technologies for addressing challenges in the fields of energy, environment, and health. After the discovery of Stöber silica, followed by that of mesoporous silica materials, such as MCM-41 and SBA-15, a significant surge in the design and synthesis of nanosilica with various sizes, shapes, morphologie...

Collective Sensing Platforms

This chapter provides an overview of web-based information and communications technology platforms that collect and display sensor based information. We focus on collective sensing platforms that allow to extend the collected sensor information, e. g., using tags or other annotations. We provide an overview on such platforms and discuss critical issues such as big data and sensor cloud storage....

Optical Methods for Wireless Implantable Sensing Platforms

Ultra small scale implants have gained lots of importance for both acute and chronic applications. Optical techniques hold the key to miniaturizing these devices to long sought sub-mm scale. This will lead towards long term use of these devices for medically relevant applications. It can also allow using multiple of these devices at the same time and forming a true body area network of sensors....