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Applications of Electrochemistry in Medicine

Part of the book series: Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry ((MAOE,volume 56))

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The last couple of decades have witnessed the emergence of the wide and diverse field of bio-electrochemistry which nowadays provides enough research to fill several international meetings per year. As part of this research, topics such as the electrochemical analysis of biological samples, including electrochemical biosensors, and the characterization of redox properties of proteins and enzymes first come to mind. Indeed, these areas of biological electrochemistry have blossomed ever since the first pioneering studies on electrochemical biosensors in the 1980s [1]. The field has moved on considerably since then, of course, and various aspects of modern biological electrochemistry have recently formed part of a special issue of ChemPhysChem [2].

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    Uma M. Viswanathan, Torsten Burkholz, Khairan Khairan & Claus Jacob

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Álvarez, E.D., Viswanathan, U.M., Burkholz, T., Khairan, K., Jacob, C. (2013). Bio-Electrochemistry and Chalcogens. In: Schlesinger, M. (eds) Applications of Electrochemistry in Medicine. Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry, vol 56. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6148-7_7

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