Nanostructured ZnO and ZnO/nanocarbon composites for biosensing applications

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Start date
2018-07-01
End date
2021-06-30
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Acronym
NANOBIOSENSE
Reference
POCI-01-145-FEDER-028755
Funding
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Programme
02/SAICT/2017
Budget
497.135 €

Team

Description

The expanding interest regarding biosensing and early diseases’ diagnosis has led to an exponential growth of R&D efforts in order to find the most suitable materials and sensing mechanisms to achieve high sensitivity and selectivity at low production cost. In this framework, the present project envisages the development of ZnO-based nanostructures to be employed in the fabrication of optical and electrochemical devices for the detection of pathogenic bacteria and biomedical analytes like prostate specific antigen, among other important biological indicators. The ZnO and ZnO/nanocarbon composite nanostructures will be produced by up-scalable laser processing techniques and will be employed as transducers in a sensor device. These structures will be functionalized to immobilize the desired biorecognition receptor which will confer the selectivity to the target analyte. Their technological potential for being incorporated in a biosensor will be evaluated and prototypes will be produced.

Main Local Researcher

Joana Rodrigues (i3N)

Coordination

Universidade de Aveiro (UA)

Partners

Universidade do Minho, NOVA.ID.FCT - Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Universidade de Coimbra

Groups

G5 - Biomimetic, Biological and Living Materials;

link

https://sites.google.com/view/nanobiosense/

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