Reference: MAT2008-03079
Funded by: MEC
Program: Plan Nacional de I + D + I (2008-2011)
Period: 01/01/2009 – 31/12/2011
Partners: Fundación Privada Institut Català de Nanotecnologia (ICN)
Summary:
The project aims at developing novel nanomaterial based targeting approaches, using both synthetic and biological receptors, as emerging universal platforms with interest to develop simple, low cost and efficient biosensors for future applications in several fields including diagnostic and environment control. This is an interdisciplinary project based on the previous expertise obtained as outputs from several national and international projects developing electrochemical (bio)sensing systems. The inputs that would support the success of this project are the conventional designs developed so far and based on: a) (bio)composite materials for several analytes with interest for environment monitoring, b) nanoparticles as labels for DNA sensors and immunosensors, c) carbon nanotubes as modifiers of sensors surfaces and d) lab-on-a-chip with capillary electrophoresis. The project objective is to substantially improve these designs solving the crucial part of the detection system: the signal transducing platform, which in most of the mentioned biosystems, is based on the electrochemical detection methodologies.