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This coherent presentation of the achievements made in bionanoelectronics deals with the state of the art in the broadest range of relevant topics, from nanodevices applied to biostructures to novel methods in nanomedicine, biomimetics and DNA sequencing.

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This book presents the achievements in bionanoelectronics in a coherent manner. It deals with nanodevices applied to biostructures, molecular motors, molecular pumps, molecular nanoactuators and electronic biodevices, including nanodevices for sensing and imaging biomolcules. The book describes bionanoelectronics, detection of biomolecules and targets various biological applications such as detection and sequencing of DNA and early detection of various deseases and nanomedicine. Further important topics of the book are biomimetics and bioinspired electronics.The book also deals with biomolecules as building blocks of nanodevices for nanoelectronics or future computing architecture The application of scanning probe techniques to biological samples is described.

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Introduction.
Chapter 1. Fundamentals on bionanotehnologies
1.1 Transport phenomena at the nanoscale
1.2 Nanotechnology
1.3 Conduction properties of biological materials
1.4 Micro-nanofluidics
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Chapter 2. Sensing of biomolecules
2.1 Nanotransistors based on nanotubes, nanowires and graphene
2.2 DNA detection
2.2.1 DNA detection based on nanotransistors
2.2.2 DNA detection based on nanopores
2.3 MEMS/NEMS biodetection
2.4 Plasmonic biodetection
2.5 Breath detection-nanoelectronic noses
2.6 Detection of biological diseases
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Chapter 3. Imaging and manipulation of biomolecules
3.1 Bioapplications of atomic force microscopy
3.2 Bioapplications of scanning tunneling microscopy
3.3 Bioapplications of magnetic and optical tweezers
3.4 Optical labeling and imaging of biomolecules
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Chapter 4. Biomolecular architectures
4.1 Biopatterning
4.2 Bioscaffolding
4.3 Self-assembled biomolecules
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Chapter 5. Molecular devices
5.1 Molecular motors
5.2 Brownian ratchets
5.3 Molecular pumps
5.4 Molecular nanoactuators
5.5 Electronic biodevices
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Chapter 6. Biocomputing
6.1 DNA computing
6.2 Molecular logic devices
6.3 Bio-FET-based logic
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Chapter 7. Nanomedicine
7.1 Drug delivery and healing based on nanomaterials
7.2 DNA arrays and chips for diagnosis
7.3 Nanosurgery
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Chapter 8. Bioinspired devices8.1 Biomimetics
8.2 Bioinspired electronics
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