Abdelhamid Elaissari, PhD, DEA, is Director of Research at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Lyon, France. A partial list of his current research interests includes functionalization of complex colloidal systems, physical chemistry and colloidal characterization of colloidal particles, adsorption, desorption, covalent grafting, and specific immobilization of biomolecules and polyelectrolytes onto colloidal particles.

• About the Editor viiPreface ixContributors xi1. Reactive Nanocolloids for Nanotechnologies and Microsystems 1Christian Pichot2. Nanoparticles Comprising pH/Temperature-Responsive Amphiphilic Block Copolymers and Their Applications in Biotechnology 31Peihong Ni3. Evolution in Malaria Disease Detection: From Parasite Visualization to Colloidal-Based Rapid Diagnostic 65Duangporn Polpanich, Pramuan Tangboriboonrat, and Abdelhamid Elaissari4. Antigen-Antibody Interactions Detected by Quasi-Elastic Light Scattering and Electrophoretic Mobility Measurements – A New Concept for Latex Immunodiagnostic Test 95Teresa Basinska and Stanislaw Slomkowski5. Biospecific Reactions by Affinity Latexes from Diagnostics to Multiplex Assay 117Haruma Kawaguchi6. Fluorescent Colloidal Particles as Detection Tools in Biotechnology Systems 133Igor Nabiev, Alyona Sukhanova, Mikhail Artemyev, and Vladimir Oleinikov7. Biofunctionalized Magnetic Micro/Nanoparticles for Biosensing Technologies 169Nicole Jaffrezic-Renault, Claude Martelet, Yann Chevolot, and Jean-Pierre Cloarec8. Colloids, Biotechnology, and Microfluidics 199Cecile Cottin-Bizonne and Rosaria Ferrigno9. Gas Sensors Based on Ultrathin Films of Conducting Polymers and Nanocomposites 223Manoj K. Ram, O¨zlem Yavuz, and Matt Aldissi10. Force Measurements between Emulsion Droplets As a New Tool for Medical Diagnostics 247Abdelhamid Elaissari, Céline Genty, and Olivier Mondain-Monval11. Particles for Protein Analysis in Microfluidic Systems 275Anne Le Nel, Myriam Taverna, and Jean-Louis Viovy12. Semicarbazide/a-oxo Aldehyde Site-Specific Ligation Chemistry: From Peptide Microarrays to the Micropatterning of Polycarbonate or Titanium Oxide Using Silica Nanoparticles 299Ouafâa El-Mahdi, Vianney Souplet, Olivier Carion, Clément Roux, Jean-Michel Garcia, Céline Maillet, Christophe Olivier, Oleg Melnyk and Jean-Olivier Durand13. Electrical Detection of Antibodies from Human Serum Based on the Insertion of Gold-Labeled Secondary Antibodies into Microor Nanogaps 329Lionel Marcon, Didier Stiévenard, and Oleg MelnykIndex 353