Although the term was first proposed in 1968, the birth of bioelectronics as we know it today is much more recent. In fact, the first meaning of the word bioelectronics was the intermolecular electron transfer found in biological systems [1], while its modern meaning is quite different, as discussed in this chapter. Tony Turner, founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Biosensors and...

This special issue of the Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering highlights the field of advanced bioelectronics and bioinformatics. Several papers were considered for this special issue, including those on bioelectronics in wearable and implantable medical devices, such as sensors, and bioinformatics in healthcare, brain cognition, and various neural pathologies. Many investigators cont...

Center for bioelectronics, biosensors and biochips http://www.clemson.edu/c3b/projects.html This site describes research being conducted at the Center for Bioelectronics, Biosensors and Biochips at Clemson University. What are biosensors? http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/biology/enztech/biosensors.html This website provides excellent fundamental information on what constitutes a biosensor, their types and...

Organic bioelectronics forms the basis of conductive polymer tools with great potential for application in biomedical science and medicine. It is a rapidly growing field of both academic and industrial interest since conductive polymers bridge the gap between electronics and biology by being electronically and ionically conductive. This feature can be employed in numerous ways by choosing the r...

We review the rapidly emerging field of switchable interfaces and its implications for bioelectronics. We seek to piece together early breakthroughs and key developments, and highlight and discuss the future of switchable bioelectronics by focusing on bio-electrochemical processes based on mimicking and controlling biological environments with external stimuli. All these studies strive to answe...

The integration of electronic elements with biological systems, resulting in novel devices with unusual functionalities, attracts significant research efforts owing to fundamental scientific interest and the possible practical applications of such devices. The commonly used buzzword ‘‘bioelectronics’’ highlights the functional integration of two different areas of science and engineering – biol...