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Chapter One
Carbon Nanotube-Based Sensors
and Biosensors
RICHARD G. COMPTON, GREGORY G. WILDGOOSE, and ELICIA L. S. WONG
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
1.1 Introduction to the structure of carbon nanotubes
1.2 Electroanalysis using CNT-modified electrodes
1.2.1 Historical background
1.2.2 Electron transfer at graphitic carbon electrodes: The role of edge-plane defects
1.2.3 Exceptions to the rule that edge-plane defects are the important electroactive sites
on CNTs
1.3 Advantageous application of CNTs in sensors: pH sensing
1.4 Carbon nanotube-based biosensors
1.4.1 Introduction
1.4.2 Surface functionalization of carbon nanotubes and configuration of a CNT-based
electrochemical biosensor
1.5 Using CNTs in biosensor production for medical diagnostics and environmental
applications
1.5.1 Medical diagnostics
1.5.2 Environmental applications
1.1 INTRODUCTION TO THE STRUCTURE OF CARBON NANOTUBES
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