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
Cost-effective and Globally Deployable Mobile Diagnostics Using Paper-Based Nanobiosensors
Monday, 1 October 2018 at 18:00
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Point of care devices are progressing rapidly and the demand for cost
efficient globally deployable mobile diagnostics 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 fulfil 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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