Biosensors Like Bloodhounds. Olfactory cells are being integrated into tiny microsystems to give them a bloodhound-like ability to sniff out hazards such as explosive materials, biological pathogens, spoiled food or impure water. Three faculty researchers in the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering -- Pamela Abshire, electrical and computer engineering (ECE) and Institute for Systems Research (ISR); Benjamin Shapiro, aerospace engineering and ISR; and Elisabeth Smela, mechanical engineering and ECE -- are working on the new cell-based sensors-on-a-chip technology. Their sensors, only a few millimeters in size, would function dramatically differently than current detectors ...

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Abstract: Discusses intelligent materials, intelligent material-based sensors, their transducing methods and different kinds of transducers used with smart material-based sensors. Assumes that the future of intelligent sensors will almost totally dependent on intelligent chemistry and intelligent instrumentation. Molecular recognition will widen the horizons of smart systems with the help of VLSI-based  design and fabrication. Discusses different sensor mechanisms, such as ENFETs, immunoFETs, ISFETs and chemFETs and takes a detailed look at potentiometric, amperometric and optical biosensors.

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