“…Nanowires, with the characteristics of low weight with extraordinary mechanical, electrical, thermal, and multifunctional properties, have also been widely used in numerous bio-sensing applications (Curreli et al, 2005;Laocharoensuk et al, 2007;Roberts and Kelley, 2007;Shi et al, 2005;Wanekaya et al, 2006;Zhu et al, 2006). For example, some metal nanowires can be adopted in the detection of glucose (Cusma et al, 2007;Lu et al, 2007;Qu et al, 2007), cholesterol (Aravamudhan et al, 2007a;2007b), or DNA (Gao et al, 2007;Yi et al, 2010). Other types of nanowires have been exploited to detect inosine (Liu et al, 2006), bacterial (Basu et al, 2004;Garcia-Aljaro et al, 2010;Mishra et al, 2008), or cancer biomarkers (Choi et al, 2010;Ramgir et al, 2007;Zheng et al, 2005).…”