UC Novel Biosensor Detects Dangerous Water Toxins - Due to their overwhelming and harmful presence, developing sensors is crucial for the continuous monitoring of cyanotoxins in freshwater aquatic systems that serve as drinking-water sources. Dionysiou and his team of researchers collaborate with the best minds around the world, including other UC research groups (the Nano World and the research group of William Heineman, chemistry professor at McMicken College of Arts and Sciences), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a research team from Greece's National Center for Scientific Research (NCSR) in Demokritos. Together, they work to treat contaminated water, prevent such contamination and provide early warning in case of contamination ...

Articles, Papers and References

S. Hauck, C. Koblinger, S. Drost, H. Wolf, Biosensor System for the Determination of Ochratoxin A, In Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Solid-State Transducers and the 9th UK Conference on Sensors and their Applications, Southampton, UK, 13-16 September 1998, EUROSENSOR XII, Ed. by N. M. White, Institute of Physics Publishing Bristol and Philadelphia, Sensors Series, volume 1, pp. 515-518.

U.Schramm, T. Rechenbach, P.Boeker, S. Winter, C.Roesky, R.Pollex, E.Weber, P.Schulze Lammers, J. Bargon, Ammonia Sensor Based on Carboxylic-Acid Functionalized Cryptophanes and Macrocycles, In Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Solid-State Transducers and the 9th UK Conference on Sensors and their Applications, Southampton, UK, 13-16 September 1998, EUROSENSOR XII, Ed. by N. M. White, Institute of Physics Publishing Bristol and Philadelphia, Sensors Series, volume 1, pp. 533-536.

P.Boeker, G. Horner, T. Rechenbach, U.Schramm, P.Schulze Lammers, J. Bargon,  Ammonia Detector for Emissions of Agricultural Origin, In Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Solid-State Transducers and the 9th UK Conference on Sensors and their Applications, Southampton, UK, 13-16 September 1998, EUROSENSOR XII, Ed. by N. M. White, Institute of Physics Publishing Bristol and Philadelphia, Sensors Series, volume 2, pp. 913-916.

Powner E.T., Yalcinkaya F., Intelligent Biosensor, Sensor Review, Vol.17, No.2, 1997, pp.107-116

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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