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Piezoelectric Sensors

  • Aimed at researchers and technologists in academic and industrial environments, as well as
  • graduate students in chemistry, physics, biology, engineering, and material science who want to keep abreast of the latest trends in chemical sensing and biosensing with piezo-electric sensor devices

Part of the book series: Springer Series on Chemical Sensors and Biosensors (SSSENSORS, volume 5)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
  2. Physical Aspects of QCM-Measurements

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Interface Circuits for QCM Sensors

      • Ralf Lucklum, Frank Eichelbaum
      Pages 3-47
    3. Studies of Viscoelasticity with the QCM

      • Diethelm Johannsmann
      Pages 49-109
    4. Probing the Solid/Liquid Interface with the Quartz Crystal Microbalance

      • M. Urbakh, V. Tsionsky, E. Gileadi, L. Daikhin
      Pages 111-149
    5. Studies of Contact Mechanics with the QCM

      • Diethelm Johannsmann
      Pages 151-170
  3. Chemical and Biological Applications of the QCM

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
    2. Imprinted Polymers in Chemical Recognition for Mass-Sensitive Devices

      • Franz L. Dickert, Peter A. Lieberzeit
      Pages 173-210
    3. Analytical Applications of QCM-based Nucleic Acid Biosensors

      • Maria Minunni, Marco Mascini, Sara Tombelli
      Pages 211-235
    4. Piezoelectric Immunosensors

      • Robert D. Vaughan, George G. Guilbault
      Pages 237-280
    5. The Quartz Crystal Microbalance in Cell Biology: Basics and Applications

      • Vanessa Heitmann, Björn ReiĂź, Joachim Wegener
      Pages 303-338
  4. Applications Based on Advanced QCM-Techniques

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 339-339
    2. Enzyme Reactions on a 27 MHz Quartz Crystal Microbalance

      • Yoshio Okahata, Toshiaki Mori, Hiroyuki Furusawa, Takanori Nihira
      Pages 341-369
    3. The QCM-D Technique for Probing Biomacromolecular Recognition Reactions

      • Fredrik Höök, Bengt Kasemo
      Pages 425-447
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 481-483

About this book

Chemically and biologically functionalized piezoelectric sensors are attractive alternatives to surface-sensitive transducers due to their surpassing versatility. The fourth volume of the Springer Series on Chemical Sensors and Biosensors includes a comprehensive theoretical treatment and current state-of-the art applications of the quartz crystal microbalance (QCM). Interface circuits and the study of viscoelasticity and micromechanics as well as surface roughness with the QCM are discussed. The broad field of analytical applications of piezoelectric sensors is covered, which ranges from nucleic acid detection, immunosensors, protein-membrane interactions and monitoring cells by imprinted polymers to the viscoelastic response of living mammalian cells on QCM-resonators. Sophisticated derivatives of the classical QCM, such as rupture event scanning, the use of extraordinary high frequency crystals, and electrochemical QCM, clearly reveal the advantages of combining multiple techniques to realize new detection schemes on the basis of piezoelectric resonators.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

    Andreas Janshoff

  • Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany

    Claudia Steinem

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