Main description:

blends materials, fabrication, and structure issues of developing nanobio devices in a single volume.

treats major nanobio application areas such as drug delivery, molecular diagnostics, and imaging.

chapters written by the leading researchers in the field.

Contents:

Biomolecular Sensing for Cancer Diagnostics Using Carbon Nanotubes.- Microspheres for Drug Delivery.- Nanoscale Polymer Fabrication for Biomedical Applications.- 3D Micro- and Nanofabrication and Their Medical Application.- Sacrificial Oxide Layer for Drug Delivery.- Carbon Nanotube Biosensors.- Characterization Methods for Quality Control of Nanopore and Nanochannel Membranes.- Magnetic Nanoparticles for MR Imaging.- Polymer Design for Nonviral Gene Delivery.- Dip-Pen Technologies for Biomolecular Devices.- Engineered Inorganic-Binding Polypeptides for Bionanotechnology.- Dynamic Nanodevices Based on Protein Molecular Motors.- Nanodevices in Biomedical Applications.- Modeling Biomolecular Transport at the Nanoscale.- Nanotechnology in Cancer Drug Therapy: A Biocomputational Approach.- Nanomechanics and Tissue Pathology.