All-Polymer Biosensor for Label-Free Point of Care Diagnostics

The growing demand for point-of-care analytical systems requires novel miniaturised and sophisticated sensor systems. This book describes the development of an all-polymer biosensor platform for electrochemical detection of analytes from liquid media. Conductive polymers were employed for the electrical structures, while aptamers were used as recognition elements. The wide range of applicability of this sensor is shown on the basis of three different analytical challenges.

Johannes Daprà has completed a MSc in chemistry at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, specialising in construction chemicals and polymer chemistry.During his PhD he worked on the development of biosensors at the Institute for Micro- and Nanotechnology at the Technical University of Denmark.