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05/04/2010: Full text of "Surface Plasmon Biosensors" book is now availble on AAU networks:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/g02312/

 

Course text books

supplementary reading
Cover image-Wang
Homola book cover
Eggins book cover

Joseph Wang "Analytical Electrochemistry" 3ed , Wiley-VCH 2006 (978-0-471-678793)
Wang

"Surface Plasmon Resonance Based Sensors" Springer Series on Chemical Sensors and Biosensors , Vol. 4 Homola, Jiri (Ed.) 2006, ISBN: 978-3-540-33918-2.
Full text is availble on AAU networks:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/g02312/
Homola

Brian R. Eggins "Chemical Sensors and Biosensors"
Wiley 2002
ISBN: 978-0-471-89914-3 Eggins

 

Biosensors schedule

  Date Title Pages Exercises
Lecture 1 9-Feb-2010

Introduction to biosensors. Concepts and definitions. Electrochemical sensors I: Potentiometry and Ion-Selective Electrodes

Atkins "Physical Chemistry", Ch. 7;
Eggins Ch.1 (Intro);
Eggins Ch.2 p.11-27;
Eggins Ch.5. p.127-137;

Wang: Ch.5

Lecture 2 23-Feb-2010


Electrochemical sensors II. Potential controlled techniques.
Atkins "Physical Chemistry", Ch. 25 (Electrochemistry);
Wang Ch.1

 
Lecture 3 01-Mar-2009 Electrochemical techniques. Practical amperometric sensors

Wang Ch.2
Wang Ch.3
Eggins Ch5. p.138-163

Egins Ch8. p. 213-217

 
Lecture 4 02-Mar-2009

Conductance sensors. ChemFET. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy.. Electrochemical instrumentation.

Wang Ch.4 ,
Katz "Impedance Spectroscopy"
Eggins on ChemFET

 
Lecture 5 16-Mar-2009
Mechanical sensors.
Laboratory experiment on e/chemical sensing
Alvarez et al "Cantilever Biosensors"
 
Lecture 6 30-Mar-2009
Surface plasmon sensors: principles and instrumentation.
   
Lecture 7 13-Apr-2009
Kinetics of surface bound reactions

Homola: "Molecular Interaction in SPR"
Comsol model: AC Electrokinetics

 
Lecture 8 20-Apr-2009
Immobilization techniques.
Homola: "Immobilization for SPR"  
Lecture 9 27-Apr-2009
DNA biosensors. DNA Arrays. Nanoarrays.
Mirkin "Bionanoarrays"
 
Lecture 10 04-May-2009
Fluorescence based sensors

Atkins Physical Chenistry, p.845-852
Fiber optic sensors

 

Biosensor examination

  1. Exam form: oral, graded (7-trins)
    Preparation time 30min, examination time 30 min.
    Examination paper will contain two questions to be answered. The full list of exam questions can be found here.

  2. Allowed means: paper, pen, calculator. No notes, books or computers can be taken to the preparation room.

 

 


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