Biosensors / Devices

Flexible, Waterproof Solar Cell Can Survive the Washing Machine

Gennady Shafirovich — Fri, 03 May 2024 16:59:04 +0000

May

2024

A new solar cell only three microns thick can survive twisting, stretching, and submersion in water.

Inventing a “Smart” Bandage for Chronic Wounds

Karen Simpson — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 15:34:14 +0000

May

2023

A new device might help heal chronic wounds faster by continuously monitoring the wound’s status and dispensing treatment automatically.

Organ Monitoring Goes Miniature with Ultrasound “Sticker”

Karen Simpson — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 15:40:05 +0000

September

2022

A new ultrasound probe that adheres to the skin like a sticker could allow doctors to monitor organs over a period of days.

CEP: News Update

Karen Simpson — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 15:39:53 +0000

Solar Tower Produces Jet Fuel Sustainably; Organ Monitoring Goes Miniature with Ultrasound "Sticker"; Keeping Bacterial Cures Alive in the Gut; New Technique Gives Biologics Better Resistance to Heat.

September

2022

Catalyzing Commercialization: Wearable Sweat Sensors with Battery-Free Osmotic Pumping

Karen Simpson — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 22:46:19 +0000

Sweat and interstitial fluid (ISF) contain a variety of essential biomarkers and can be sources of information for monitoring an individual’s health.

June

2022

Catalyzing Commercialization: Rapid Specific Detection of Aerosolized Viruses

Karen Simpson — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 19:17:06 +0000

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed serious deficiencies in our ability to contain disease-causing pathogens that are transmitted via aerosols.

February

2022

Wearable Sensor Provides Early Alert for Wound Infections

Karen Simpson — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:15:14 +0000

January

2022

A new wearable sensor can provide an early warning that a wound is becoming infected.

CEP: News Update

Karen Simpson — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:14:49 +0000

Making Forest Management Cost-Effective; Drone-Based Nose Can Sniff Out Bad Odors; Wearable Sensor Provides Easy Alert for Wound Infections; Anti-Tick Vaccine Shows Promise for Preventing Lyme Disease; Researchers Develop Self-Healing Smart Bandages

January

2022

Award Submission: Development of Stable Targeted Nano-, Encapsulated Manganese Oxide (NEMO) Particles for Early Breast Cancer Diagnosis By MRI

Site Administrator — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 18:30:00 +0000

Conference Presentation

AIChE Annual Meeting

November 10, 2021

The ultimate goal of this research project is to develop a novel contrast agent to reduce the number of false-positive and false-negative imaging...

DNA Aptamer-Decorated Gold Nanoparticles for In Vivo Detection of Human Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 Via Molecular Photoacoustic Imaging

Site Administrator — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 17:48:00 +0000

Conference Presentation

AIChE Annual Meeting

November 10, 2021

Matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) plays major roles in extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling and membrane protein cleavage, suggesting a high...

Gram-Positive Bacterial Membrane Model Developed Using Membrane Vesicles to Study Biophysical Properties and Antibiotic Interactions

Site Administrator — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 22:15:00 +0000

Conference Presentation

AIChE Annual Meeting

November 9, 2021

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) produced by eucaryotic and procaryotic cells provide a useful platform to study biophysical properties of the membrane...

Simulations of Electroenzymatic Glutamate Sensors in the Brain Reveal the Value of Finite Element Methods for Understanding Neurochemical Transmission

Site Administrator — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 18:42:00 +0000

Conference Presentation

AIChE Annual Meeting

November 9, 2021

Modeling neurochemical signaling in the brain with transport and reaction equations is a much-needed application of chemical engineering fundamentals...

Emergent Optoelectronic Properties through Controlling Nonuniform Charge Carrier Profiles within a Plasmonic Semiconductor Nanocrystal

Site Administrator — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 14:30:00 +0000

Conference Presentation

AIChE Annual Meeting

November 9, 2021

Plasmonic nanocrystals (NCs) can act as a focusing lens that captures incident light at wavelengths near the localized surface plasmon resonance peak...

Engineered CRISPR-Enhance System for Clinical Detection of Sars-COV-2 RNA

Site Administrator — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 22:28:00 +0000

Conference Presentation

AIChE Annual Meeting

November 8, 2021

The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has resulted into 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic with confirmed...

Make Microfluidics Work for Omic Assays (Invited Speaker)

Site Administrator — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 19:58:00 +0000

Conference Presentation

AIChE Annual Meeting

November 8, 2021

Microfluidics has long been promised as a solution to complex molecular assays with real biomedical relevance. The delivery on this promise has been...