Novel Nanostructured Materials for Electrochemical Bio-sensing Applications

J G Manjunatha is an Assistant Professor in Chemistry at FMKMC College, A Constituent College of Mangalore University, India. He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Kuvempu University and Postdoc from the University of Kebangsaan Malaysia. His research interests focus on the fabrication of electrochemical sensors for the detection of biologically active molecules and the fabrication of binderless supercapacitors. He has received various awards and published more than 190 research articles in reputed International Journals. An editor for around 21 books books (RSC, ACS, IOP, Elsevier and Bentham science publishers), and special issues (IOP Science Publisher, Frontiers in Sensors, MDPI). He is also an editorial board member for many reputed journals and Editor -Chief Sensing technology journal (Taylor and Francis).

• PART 1: Fundamentals, Current advancements in nanostructured electrochemical biosensors Currently there is a huge progress in nanostructured materials and their applications. Especially for electrochemical bio-sensing applications because nanostructured material has great characteristics like rich surface chemistry, high surface area, surface functionality, compatibility etc.1. Fundamentals of nanostructured materials and synthetic routes 2. Basic principles, classifications and historical prospectives of electrochemical biosensors3. Modern trends in carbon nanostructured materials based electrochemical bio-sensing systems4. Developments in inorganic, organic nanostructured materials based electrochemical bio-sensing 5. Organo-metallic and biomass derived nanostructured materials for bio-sensing applications6. Comparative review of nanostructured electrochemical bio-sensing with other sensing technologies PART 2: Fabrication of nanostructured materials based bio-sensing PlatformsPhysical, chemical, mechanical characteristics and chemical functionalities of material played an important role in fabrication of electrochemical biosensor. Material characteristics has a great influence on bio-sensing performance. This section includes discussion of methods and materials for preparation of nanostructured biosensors.7. Approaches in preparation of carbon nanostructured electrochemical bio-sensing devices8. Fabrication routes for metallic nanostructured electrochemical biosensors9. Design of nanostructured bio-sensors based on organic and other composite materials 10. Electronic aspects of Electrochemical biosensors: Operation conditions, power requirement, integration ability PART 3: Applications of nanostructured electrochemical biosensors Nanostructure material based biosensors have wide spread applications in field of biomedical, environmental, industrial, food and beverages, agricultural, forensic and pharmaceutical analysis. Because these biosensors hold extradinary analytical improvements in terms of low concentration detection, impressive detection and quantification limits. This section includes the applications of nanostructured material biosensors11. Nanostructured materials based electrochemical biosensor devices for quantification of antioxidants12. Nanostructured electrochemical biosensors for pesticides, insecticides.13. Electrochemical bio-sensing for determination of toxic dyes14. Electrochemical detection of pathogens in water and food samples 15. Electrochemical biosensors for toxic gases monitoring16. Electrochemical bio-sensing tools for soil nutrient and pH monitoring 17. Nanostructure materials modified electrochemical bio-sensing devices for determination of neurochemicals18. Real-time utilization of nanostructured biosensors for determination food toxins19. Nanostructured electrochemical biosensors for estimation of pharmaceutical drugs20. Advanced nanostructured materials based biosensors in clinical and forensic diagnosis21. Detection of toxic metals using nanostructured bio-sensing platforms22. Nanostructured materials based electrochemical biosensors for hormones23. Nanostructured electrochemical biosensors for determination of amino acids24. Micronutrients and vitamins electrochemical biosensors based on nanostructured materials 25. Applications of flexible, wearable biosensors for society welfare26. Safety, health and regulation issues of nanostructured biosensors27. Advances in green synthesis of nanostructured biosensors28. Recycling, Toxicity and disposal methods for nanostructured materials based biosensors29. Economic impact and commercialization limitations of nanostructured electrochemical biosensors30. Future Sustainability and sensitivity of nanostructured materials based electrochemical biosensors over other technologies 31. Current electrochemical biosensors in market, trends and its future reliability : A Case study32. A overview stability and life time of electrochemical biosensors