The Emergence of a New Technology

Biotechnological Applications of Photosynthetic Proteins Biochips, Biosensors and Biodepices, edited by Maria Teresa Giardi and Elena V. Piletska. 2006 Landes Bioscience. 

The advantage of usii RC biodevices mainly depends on the specificity of the enzyme to recognize certain analytes or particular physicochemical conditions. Moieover, RC and PSII are especially suitable because of their physiological activities that can be easily monitored by amperometric, po-tentiometric and optical systems (F. 1). 

Despite initial enthusiasm, biosensors have not yet achieved the prominent commercial application that was initially predicted. This slow progress is not surprising since biosensor development requires the combined expertise of biologists, chemists, biotechnologists, biochemists, physkhts, and mechanical and electrical engineers. It is rate to have so many disciplines in a commercial company. 

Although it utilises the same basic biomediator, the tech applications can be divided into different classes, based on different concepts of the RC properties. 

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My principal objective in Section 10.4 has been to underline the necessity for a drastic enhancement of a crucial experimental technology, the production of ultrahigh vacuum, as a precondition for the emergence of a new branch of science, and this enhancement was surveyed in the preceding Section. It would not be appropriate in this book to present a detailed account of surface science as it has developed, so 1 shall restrict myself to a few comments. The field has been neatly subdivided among chemists, physicists and materials scientists it is an ideal specimen of the kind of study which has flourished under the conditions of the interdisciplinary materials laboratories described in Chapter 1. 

The need to conserve raw materials and enhance the yield of high-value products has led the petrochemical industry to rely increasingly on processes that involve catalytic selective oxidation. In turn, this reliance has led to the emergence of important new technologies in the past decade—processes that use selective catalytic oxidation now generate almost a quarter of all organic chemicals produced worldwide. 

Historically, technology clusters (parallel development of railroads and telegraph, road networks, oil pipelines) have been instrumental in raising productivity and also in alleviating many adverse environmental effects. The emergence of a new cluster could hold the promise of an environmentally more compatible technology trajectory. But it will take time. 

Ferrocene has for almost half a century been a focal point of research activities in the realm of organotransition-metal chemistry and physics, with ramifications into numerous technologies. More recent years have witnessed the emergence of a new research trend, probing the behaviour of ferrocene in the biological realms, notably in the transformed, i.e. cancerous, cell system. Following initial reports attesting to the pronounced antiproliferative properties of certain water-soluble derivatives of ferrocene and its one-electron oxidation product, the ferricenium... 

With technology as the fuel, new jobs emerge for which current solutions are ad hoc or nonexistent. The objective of a new jobs growth strategy, therefore, is to identify jobs that are unmet or poorly met. 

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