Antifouling (Bio)materials for Electrochemical (Bio)sensing

Bio-inspired strategies for designing antifouling biomaterials

Contamination of biomedical devices in a biological medium, biofouling, is a major cause of infection and is entirely avoidable. This mini-review will coherently present the broad range of antifouling strategies, germicidal, preventive and cleaning using one or more of biological, chemical and physical techniques. These techniques will be discussed from the point of view of their ability to inh...

Electrochemical Biosensing with Carbon Nanotubes

New Biomaterials for Intelligent Biosensing, Recognitive Drug Delivery and Therapeutics

Engineering the molecular design of intelligent biomaterials by controlling recognition and specificity is the first step in coordinating and duplicating complex biological and physiological processes. We address design and synthesis characteristics of artificial molecular structures capable of specific molecular recognition of biological molecules. Recent developments in protein delivery have ...

Synthesis of biomimetic segmented polyurethanes as antifouling biomaterials.

Controlling the non-specific adsorption of proteins, cells and bacteria onto biomaterial surfaces is of crucial importance for the development of medical devices with specific levels of performance. Among the strategies pursued to control the interactions between material surfaces and biological tissues, the immobilization of non-fouling polymers on biomaterial surfaces as well as the synthesis...

Biosensing at an Individually Addressable Electrochemical Array