Monitoring Diabetes Without Pain and Blood: Biosensors Offer

Monitoring Diabetes Without Pain and Blood: Biosensors Offer New Alternatives CNDLS documents research by Georgetown College prof in a short video. Prof. Mak Paranjape says “much thinking takes place with my students.” A daily regimen of pricked fingers and blood tests is an essential part of life for someone living with diabetes. Monitoring blood glucose levels can be tiresome, even with today’s improved monitoring devices. Drs. Mak Paranjape and John Currie, researchers in the Georgetown Advanced Electronics Laboratory (GAEL), are working to take the process to a whole new level. For the past few years, the team has been developing and testing a new biosensor device for blood glucose monitoring. The size of a small bandaid, it is designed to be worn anywhere on the body, where the biosensor samples tiny amounts of fluids that lie just beneath the skin. The device is small and convenient, and makes measuring glucose levels pain-free and noninvasive.

The Physics and Chemistry of Nanosolids

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A comprehensive textbook that addresses the recent interest in nanotechnology in the engineering, materials science, chemistry, and physics communities

In recent years, nanotechnology has become one of the most promising and exciting fields of science, triggering an increasing number of university engineering, materials science, chemistry, and physics departments to introduce courses on this emerging topic. Now, Drs. Owens and Poole have revised, updated, and revamped their 2003 work, Introduction to Nanotechnology, to make it more accessible as a textbook for advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses on the fascinating field of nanotechnology and nanoscience.

The Physics and Chemistry of Nanosolids takes a pedagogical approach to the subject and assumes only an introductory understanding of the physics and chemistry of macroscopic solids and models developed to explain properties, such as the theory of phonon and lattice vibrations and electronic band structure. The authors describe how properties depend on size in the nanometer regime and explain why these changes occur using relatively simple models of the physics and chemistry of the solid state. Additionally, this accessible book:

• Provides an introductory overview of the basic principles of solids
• Describes the various methods used to measure the properties of nanosolids
• Explains how and why properties change when reducing the size of solids to nano-dimensions, and what they predict when one or more dimensions of a solid has a nano-length
• Presents data on how various properties of solids are affected by nanosizing and examines why these changes occur
• Contains a chapter entirely devoted to the importance of carbon nanostructured materials and the potential applications of carbon nanostructures

The Physics and Chemistry of Nanosolids is complete with a series of exercises at the end of each chapter for readers to enhance their understanding of the material presented, making this an ideal textbook for students and a valuable tutorial for technical professionals and researchers who are interested in learning more about this important topic.

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DNA-PROTEIN NANOTECHNOLOGY: DEVELOPING UNIQUE BIOLOGICAL NANOSTRUCTURES AND BIOLOGICAL TOOLS

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This work describes recent synthetic and analytical approaches to biological nanomaterials, specifically protein-DNA loops and nanostructures. Drs. Morgan and Kahn describe the design considerations leading to useful DNA constructs, the application of state of the art spectroscopic methods to understanding protein-DNA conformation and dynamics, and early steps toward designed protein-DNA nanostructures. Unlike most textbooks, the book also lays out some of the frustrations that impede research progress, so the reader can appreciate the human side of research on molecules.

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