Biomolecular Sensors

RESEARCH PROJECTS:

• Bazan - Novel Sensory Mechanisms with Conjugated Polymers
• Fredrickson - Theoretical Investigations of Polyelectrolyte Complexes for Biosensors
• Heath - Developing protein capture agents that can satisfy military specifications
• Manalis - Microdevices for pathogen detection
• Meinhart & Moskovits - Free-Surface Microfluidics for High Sensitivity Detection of Chemical Agents
• Moskovits, Reich & Bazan - Developing Technologies for Multiplexed SERS-Based and nanowire-based Electronic and Optical Nose
• Pennathur - Nanofluidic Technology for Rapid Biomolecule Manipulation and Detection
• Plaxco, Heeger & Soh - Reagentless, Electronic Molecular Sensors for the Battlefield
• Reich, Ruoslahti & Manalis - Nanoparticle-based in vivo imaging for disease diagnostics, delivery of therapeutics, cell sorting, and pathogen detection
• Squires - Ion manipulation using flows and fields for energy harvesting and storage
• Turner - Exploiting Nonlinearity in Microsensor Arrays

OBJECTIVES:
The ICB integrates the sensitivity and specificity of biomolecular recognition with innovations in optical and electronic transduction, microfluidics and microfabrication. These powerful new technologies detect a broad spectrum of biomolecules and other agents in air, food, water and blood.

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