Recent Advances and Applications of Semiconductor Photocatalytic Technology

SEMICONDUCTOR LASER BASED TRACE GAS SENSOR TECHNOLOGY: RECENT ADVANCES AND APPLICATIONS Laser Based Trace Gas Sensor Technology

Recent advances in the development of sensors based on infrared diode and quantum cascade lasers for the detection of trace gas species is reported. Several examples of applications in environmental and industrial process monitoring as well as in medical diagnostics using quartz enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy and laser absorption spectroscopy will be described.

Recent Advances and Applications of Transgenic Animal Technology

Laser Based Chemical Sensor Technology: Recent Advances and Applications

There is an increasing need in many chemical sensing applications ranging from environmental science to industrial process control as well as medical diagnostics for fast, sensitive, and selective trace gas detection based on laser spectroscopy. The recent availability of continuous wave (cw) near infrared diode lasers-, mid-infrared quantum cascade and interband cascade distributed feedback (Q...

Recent Advances in SELEX Technology and Aptamer Applications in Biomedicine

Aptamers are short DNA/RNA oligonucleotides capable of binding to target molecules with high affinity and specificity. The process of selecting an aptamer is called Systematic Evolution of Ligands by Exponential Enrichment (SELEX). Thanks to the inherit merits, aptamers have been used in a wide range of applications, including disease diagnosis, targeted delivery agents and therapeutic uses. To...

Recent Advances in Body Area Network Technology and Applications

The use of wireless body area networks (WBAN) has been seen as a modern way to monitor human’s health related parameters remotely and seamlessly. The WBAN is utilizing energy efficient sensor nodes distributed around the human body and a coordinator node that controls the personal network’s operation. WBANs are utilizing shortrange radio technologies to convey vital sign information from the so...