Silicon Nano-biotechnology
Preface
In the past decade, we have witnessed the giant advancement of silicon
nanotechnology, which provides exciting new avenues for myriad electronic,
energetic, environmental, biological, and biomedical applications. Among them,
the exploration of silicon nanotechnology for bioapplications (so-called silicon
nano-biotechnology) is one of the most important branches, receiving extensive
attentions and revolutionizing basic research and clinical applications in recent
years. Therefore, based on the previous elegant work of scientists worldwide and
recent progress of our group, we publish this book that introduces silicon
nanotechnology for biological and biomedical applications, particularly for
biosensing, bioimaging, and cancer therapy. It is worthwhile to point out that,
compared to the sufficiently published reports, only limited references are cited here
due to the page limitation. Therefore, we express our apologies to all the scientists
whose research work is not introduced in this book. The present book may
potentially serve as a new starting point in the realm of silicon nano-biotechnology,
and will be of interest to all chemists, material scientists, as well as biologists and
clinicians.
We express our sincere thanks to Prof. Shuit-Tong Lee for his generous help
and invaluable suggestions. We are thankful to Mr. Fei Peng (a Ph.D. student
under Prof. Yao He’s supervision) for his kind help in the elaborate and systematic
literature investigation. We appreciate the financial support from the National
Basic Research Program of China (973 Program 2013CB934400 and
2012CB932400), the Funds for International Cooperation and Exchange of the
National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61361160412), the
Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China (Grant No. BK20130052
and BK20130298), the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of
Higher Education of China (Grant No. 20133201110019 and 20133201120024),
and a project funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu
Higher Education Institutions (PAPD).
Yao He
Yuanyuan Su
Introduction
Nanotechnology has been widely regarded as one of the most important breakthroughs
since the last century, significantly revolutionizing science and technology
in the past several decades. As officially defined by the US National
Nanotechnology Initiative in 2000, ‘‘Nanotechnology is concerned with materials
and systems whose structures and components exhibits novel and significantly
improved physical, chemical and biological properties, phenomena and processes
due to their nanoscale size’’ [1]. Materials with at least one dimension sized from
1 to 100 nanometers (so-called nanomaterials) generally exhibit new and unique
optical/electronic/magnetic merits, serving as essential and important tools for
nanotechnology applications [2]. Thus far, various kinds of functional nanomaterials
(e.g., semiconductor nanomaterials, carbon nanomaterials, and silicon
nanomaterials, etc.) have been well developed [1, 3–5], which offers exciting
opportunities in virtually all branches of nanotechnology ranging from optical
systems, electronic, chemical, and automotive industries, to environment, engineering,
biology, and medicine. Among them, nanotechnology for biological and
medical applications (generally described as ‘‘nano-biotechnology’’) is considered
as one of the most important braches, which has shown great promise from basic
research (e.g., investigation of complicated biological and biomedical processes
that are hard to access with conventional approaches) to practical applications
(e.g., early diagnosis and treatment of diseases) [5, 6].
Silicon is well-known as the crust’s second most abundant element on earth,
only behind oxygen, providing a rich and low-cost resource support for myriad
silicon-based applications. By virtue of its excellent semiconductor and mechanical
properties, silicon materials act as the leading semiconductor materials and
dominate the electronics industry to date. Notably, novel structural, optical or/and
electronic characters emerge when the dimensions of silicon materials are reduced
to nanoscale level (so-called silicon nanomaterials) [7–9]. The last 20 years have
witnessed the vast advancement in fabricating silicon nanomaterials and the rapid
development of silicon nanomaterials-based applications in various fields,
including electronics, energy, environment, biology, and biomedicine [10–12].
Taking advantage of non- or lowly toxic property of silicon, exploration of silicon
nanotechnology for biological and biomedical applications is of particular interest
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Preface
In the past decade, we have witnessed the giant advancement of silicon
nanotechnology, which provides exciting new avenues for myriad electronic,
energetic, environmental, biological, and biomedical applications. Among them,
the exploration of silicon nanotechnology for bioapplications (so-called silicon
nano-biotechnology) is one of the most important branches, receiving extensive
attentions and revolutionizing basic research and clinical applications in recent
years. Therefore, based on the previous elegant work of scientists worldwide and
recent progress of our group, we publish this book that introduces silicon
nanotechnology for biological and biomedical applications, particularly for
biosensing, bioimaging, and cancer therapy. It is worthwhile to point out that,
compared to the sufficiently published reports, only limited references are cited here
due to the page limitation. Therefore, we express our apologies to all the scientists
whose research work is not introduced in this book. The present book may
potentially serve as a new starting point in the realm of silicon nano-biotechnology,
and will be of interest to all chemists, material scientists, as well as biologists and
clinicians.
We express our sincere thanks to Prof. Shuit-Tong Lee for his generous help
and invaluable suggestions. We are thankful to Mr. Fei Peng (a Ph.D. student
under Prof. Yao He’s supervision) for his kind help in the elaborate and systematic
literature investigation. We appreciate the financial support from the National
Basic Research Program of China (973 Program 2013CB934400 and
2012CB932400), the Funds for International Cooperation and Exchange of the
National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61361160412), the
Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China (Grant No. BK20130052
and BK20130298), the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of
Higher Education of China (Grant No. 20133201110019 and 20133201120024),
and a project funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu
Higher Education Institutions (PAPD).
Yao He
Yuanyuan Su
Introduction
Nanotechnology has been widely regarded as one of the most important breakthroughs
since the last century, significantly revolutionizing science and technology
in the past several decades. As officially defined by the US National
Nanotechnology Initiative in 2000, ‘‘Nanotechnology is concerned with materials
and systems whose structures and components exhibits novel and significantly
improved physical, chemical and biological properties, phenomena and processes
due to their nanoscale size’’ [1]. Materials with at least one dimension sized from
1 to 100 nanometers (so-called nanomaterials) generally exhibit new and unique
optical/electronic/magnetic merits, serving as essential and important tools for
nanotechnology applications [2]. Thus far, various kinds of functional nanomaterials
(e.g., semiconductor nanomaterials, carbon nanomaterials, and silicon
nanomaterials, etc.) have been well developed [1, 3–5], which offers exciting
opportunities in virtually all branches of nanotechnology ranging from optical
systems, electronic, chemical, and automotive industries, to environment, engineering,
biology, and medicine. Among them, nanotechnology for biological and
medical applications (generally described as ‘‘nano-biotechnology’’) is considered
as one of the most important braches, which has shown great promise from basic
research (e.g., investigation of complicated biological and biomedical processes
that are hard to access with conventional approaches) to practical applications
(e.g., early diagnosis and treatment of diseases) [5, 6].
Silicon is well-known as the crust’s second most abundant element on earth,
only behind oxygen, providing a rich and low-cost resource support for myriad
silicon-based applications. By virtue of its excellent semiconductor and mechanical
properties, silicon materials act as the leading semiconductor materials and
dominate the electronics industry to date. Notably, novel structural, optical or/and
electronic characters emerge when the dimensions of silicon materials are reduced
to nanoscale level (so-called silicon nanomaterials) [7–9]. The last 20 years have
witnessed the vast advancement in fabricating silicon nanomaterials and the rapid
development of silicon nanomaterials-based applications in various fields,
including electronics, energy, environment, biology, and biomedicine [10–12].
Taking advantage of non- or lowly toxic property of silicon, exploration of silicon
nanotechnology for biological and biomedical applications is of particular interest
English -- 2014 -- ISBN: 3642546676 -- 109 pages -- PDF -- 4,6 MB
Download
http://s18.alxa.net/s18/srvs2/02/003...technology.rar