Rajni Bais

By Rajni Bais

Electrochemical sensors have been widely employed in diverse domains of electrochemical analysis, biosensing, drug administration, healthcare, agriculture, and so on because of their special potential features that are closely related to their high selectivity, sensitivity and cycling stability. Various electrochemical techniques employed to transduct biological or chemical signal to electrical signal are voltammetry, conductometry, potentiometry and amperometry. Due to the high demand of global market and human interest in having a device to check the concentration of species in different samples that is simple and fast, researchers have been engaged in a fierce competition to design and build new sensors and biosensors in recent years. The performance of the sensors can be considerably improved by modifying the electrode surfaces using diverse nanomaterials. Further, electrochemical biosensors are promising diagnostic tools that can find biomarkers in bodily fluids including sweat, urine, blood or excrement. Nanoparticles have found propitious role in biosensors, because they aid in functions like immobilisation of molecules, catalysis in electrosynthesis, facilitation of electron transfer between electrodes and biomolecules and labelling of biomolecules. The advance in the research amalgamating electrochemistry and nanotechnology for electro (bio) sensing applications is the beginning of a promising future for mankind and global market.

Part of the book: Frontiers in Voltammetry