Overview

Led by ICREA Prof. Arben Merkoçi, the Nanobioelectronics and Biosensors group aims to integrate nanotechnology methods, tools and materials into low-cost, user friendly and efficient sensors and biosensors with application in fields such as diagnostics, food analysis, environment monitoring and other industries. The applications will take advantage of the unique properties of nanoparticles, nanotubes, nanochannels and other nanomaterials.

Background

The need for low-cost, effective and accurate sensors has exploded in recent decades, with applications ranging from home-testing of diseases to environmental monitoring of pollutants. Many nanomaterials, especially carbon nanotubes, quantum dots and various forms of nanoparticles have unique properties that make them ideally suited to act as the core sensing medium in small-scale, cheap devices. The focus of the Group’s research activity is to improve the performance (sensitivity, selectivity, response range, etc.) for various kinds of biosensors, especially for applications in the food, environmental and medical industries.