1. Electromagnetic Nanonetworks for Sensing and Drug Delivery
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Richard Tarparelli, Anna Maria Vegni, Renato Iovine, Sara Pizzi, Valeria Loscri, J. Suzuki, T. Nakano and M.J. Moore (Eds.), Iovine, R, Loscrì, V, Pizzi, S, Tarparelli, R, Vegni, ANNA MARIA, Digital Signal Processing Multimedia & Optical Communications Laboratory [Rome] (COMLAB), Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Self-organizing Future Ubiquitous Network (FUN), Inria Lille - Nord Europe, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria), Universita Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria [Reggio Calabria], Junichi Suzuki, Tadashi Nakano, Michael J. Moore, and Università degli Studi Roma Tre = Roma Tre University (ROMA TRE)
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DNA Alteration ,Materials science ,Applied Mathematics ,Nanoparticle ,[SCCO.COMP]Cognitive science/Computer science ,Nanotechnology ,02 engineering and technology ,010402 general chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Channel models ,01 natural sciences ,0104 chemical sciences ,Modeling and simulation ,Colloidal gold ,Modeling and Simulation ,Drug delivery ,Nanomedicine ,Nanorod ,0210 nano-technology ,Medical Assisting and Transcription - Abstract
International audience; The use of nanodevices for biomedical applications has recently been object of study by researchers. Novel prospectives can be envisaged in the field of nano-medicine, also supported by innovative nanodevices with specific properties. In this chapter, we present the electromagnetic properties of different metal na-noparticles (i.e., nanocube, nanocylinder, nanorod, bow-tie, biconical nanoparti-cle, etc.), opportunely functionalized for sensing applications, as well as drugged with medicament to be released to specific locations, for innovative therapeutic treatments. After modeling the design of such nanoparticles, we investigate the channel model adopted in electromagnetic nanonetworks. Basically, we focus on the nanoparticle transmission, diffusion and reception processes, both for extra- and in-vivo applications i.e., for the detection of target cells in a biological tissue sample, and for drug delivery via nanoparticle adsorption, respectively. Numerical results obtained through full-wave simulations have shown the effectiveness of electromagnetic nanoparticles for specific biomedical applications (e.g., DNA al-teration detection). Finally, we highlight that in this chapter the electromagnetic properties that are described are used for sensing and drug delivery, and not for communication among nanoparticles.
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- 2017