Arben Merkoçi,
ICREA Professor and Director of the Nanobioelectronics & Biosensors Group,
Institut Català de Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia (ICN2), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST)
Arben Merkoçi is currently ICREA Professor and director of the Nanobioelectronics & Biosensors Group at Institut Català de Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia (ICN2), part of Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST). After his PhD (1991) at Tirana University (Albania), in the topic of Ion-Selective-Electrodes (ISEs) Dr. Merkoçi worked as postdoc and senior researcher/invited professor in the field of nanobiosensors and lab-on-a-chip technologies in Italy, Spain, USA and since 2006 at ICN2. Prof. Merkoçi research is focused on the design and application of cutting edge nanotechnology and nanoscience based cost/efficient biosensors. The paper/plastic-based nanobiosensors involve integration of biological molecules (DNA, antibodies, cells and enzymes) and other (bio)receptors with micro- and nanostructures/motors and applied in diagnostics, environmental monitoring or safety and security. He has published around 300 peer review research papers (H index: 61 WOS; 79 GS), supervised 30 PhD students and has been invited to give plenary lectures and keynote speeches in around 200 occasions in various countries. Prof. Merkoçi is Co-Editor In Chief of Biosensors and Bioelectronics and member of Editorial Board of other journals. He is co-founder of two spin-off companies, PaperDrop dedicated to nanodiagnostics and GraphenicaLab to electronic printing. See more details on his CV at: https://www.icrea.cat/security/files/researchers/files-maintenance/full_cv_amerkoci_0.pdf
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Biosensors field is progressing rapidly and the demand for cost
efficient platforms is the key factor for their success. Physical,
chemical and mechanical properties of cellulose in both micro and
nanofiber-based networks combined with their abundance in nature or easy
to prepare and control procedures are making these materials of great
interest while looking for cost-efficient and green alternatives for
device production technologies. Both paper and nanopaper-based
biosensors are emerging as a new class of devices with the objective to
fulfill the “World Health Organization” requisites to be ASSURED:
affordable, sensitive, specific, user-friendly, rapid and robust,
equipment free and deliverable to end-users. How to design simple
paper-based biosensor architectures? How to tune their analytical
performance upon demand? How one can ‘marriage’ nanomaterials such as
metallic nanoparticles, quantum dots and even graphene with paper and
what is the benefit? How we can make these devices more robust,
sensitive and with multiplexing capabilities? Can we bring these low
cost and efficient devices to places with low resources, extreme
conditions or even at our homes? Which are the perspectives to link
these simple platforms and detection technologies with mobile phone
communication? I will try to give responses to these questions through
various interesting applications related to protein, DNA and even
contaminants detection all of extreme importance for diagnostics,
environment control, safety and security.
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