Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems, 2011, Vol.14, No.3, pp.300-308

NONLINEAR PHENOMENA IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS
An Interdisciplinary Journal

2011, Vol.14, No.3, pp.300-308

Capabilities of Carbon Nanotube Utilization at Creation of Biological Sensors.
A. I. Vorobjova

Searches of the materials adequate to designs of "clever" biosensors for biomedical applications, have led to working out of a new class of biosensors and express analyzers on the basis of new carbon materials, in particular on the basis of carbon nanotubes (CNT). In given paper the capabilities of carbon nanotube utilization at creation of biological sensors on the basis of literary analysis and own experimental results are presented. Types of carbon nanotube-based biological sensors (CNT-biosensors) and corresponding classification are considered. The basic difficulties of practical realization of different constructive-technological variants of CNT-biosensors and possibilities of their overcoming are analyzed.
Key words: carbon nanotubes, biomedical applications, surface functionalization, biosensor

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