Nanobiotechnology II

SELF-ASSEMBLY & NANOPARTICLES - NOVEL PRINCIPLES
Self-Assembled Artificial Transmembrane Ion Channels
Self-Assembling DNA Nanostructures for Patterned Molecular Assembly
Synthesis and Assembly of Nanoparticles and Nanostructures Using Bioderived Templates
Proteins and Nanoparticles: Covalent and Non-Covalent Conjugates
DNA Nanostructures for Patterned Molecular Assembly and Controlled Molecular Transport
Biocatalytic Growth of Nanoparticles for Sensors and Circuitry
NANOSTRUCTURES FOR ANALYTICS
Nanoparticles for Electrochemical Bioassays
Luminiscent Semiconductor Quantum Dots in Biology
Nanoscale Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensors
Cantilever Array Sensors for Bioanalysis
Scanning Ion Conduction Microscopy
Label-Free Nanowire and Nanotube Biomolecular Sensors for In Vitro Diagnostics of Cancer and other Diseases
Bionanarrays
NANOSTRUCTURES FOR MEDICINAL APPLICATIONS
Biological Barriers to Nanocarrier-Mediated Delivery of Therapeutic and Imaging Agents
Organic Nanoparticles: Adapting Emerging Techniques from the Electronics Industry for the Generation of Shape-Specific, Functionalized Carriers for Applications in Nanomedicine
Poly(amidoamine) Dendrimer-Based Multifunctional Nanoparticles
Nanoparticle Contrast Agents for Molecular Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Micro- and Nanoscale Control of Cellular Environment for Tissue Engineering
Diagnostics and Therapeutic Targeted Perfluorocarbon Nanoparticles
NANOMOTORS
Biological Nanomotors
Biologically Inspired Hybrid Nanodevices

"In summary, this books represents a fine collection of chapters describing current thinking on this subject..."
nanotoday
(October 2007, Volume 2, Number 5)

Chad A. Mirkin is the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry and the Director of the Institute for Nanotechnology and the Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly at Northwestern University in Evanston. Professor Mirkin holds a B.S. degree from Dickinson College (1986) and a Ph.D. degree in chemistry from The Pennsylvania State University (1989). He was a NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before becoming a chemistry professor at Northwestern University in 1991.
Professor Mirkin is known for his development of nanoparticle-based biodetection schemes and his invention of Dip-Pen Nanolithography. He is the founder of two companies, Nanosphere and NanoInk, which are commercializing nanotechnology applications in the life science and semiconductor industries.

Christof M. Niemeyer is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Dortmund (Germany) where he holds the chair of Biological and Chemical Microstructuring. He studied chemistry at the University of Marburg and did his Ph.D. thesis at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim/Ruhr under the supervision of Manfred Reetz. After a postdoctorate with Charles Cantor at the Center for Advanced Biotechnology in Boston (USA) he went back to Germany, where he worked with Dietmar Blohm at the University of Bremen to complete his habilitation before moving to Dortmund as a full Professor in 2002. He is interested in semisynthetic DNA-protein and DNA-nanoparticle conjugates and their applications in life sciences, catalysis and molecular nanotechnology.

C. A. Mirkin, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA; C. M. Niemeyer, University of Dortmund, Germany