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13 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Metallurgy and Materials
University of Southampton
A low-cost disposable chemical sensing platform based on discrete components
Significance of output:
This work demonstrated a novel low-cost technique for establishing disposable chemical sensing platforms. We utilize discrete off-the-shelf components as transducing cores along with separately processed passive electrodes for sensing distinct species. The proposed hybrid methodology alleviates issues such as integration of sensors in inaccessible areas, fabrication cost, long-term stability of the sensors and reusability of the instrumentation circuitry. This work has led to further funding from EPSRC (EP/K009842/1, £932k) and ERC (i2MOVE, €7M). The methodology has been patented (WO Patent 2,012,098,409, 2012) and commercial exploitation in inexpensive diagnostics is currently pursued through DNA-e Ltd (leila.shepherd@dna.co.uk).
