SENSOR 4.O : Versatile Chemical Sensor System
Domains
Food
Health and wellbeing
Environenment
Energy
Technologies
Sensors
Rapid diagnostic technologies (water, air, soil)
Application
Whether in liquid or gas media, the versatility of SENSOR 4.0 allows online process monitoring, contaminant or molecule of interest sensing , in many industrial sectors:
- Food industry
- Oil and gas
- Biomedical / Pharmaceutical industry
- Ecology & environment
Description
The sensor technology is based on a polymer cantilever micropatterned at the extremity of an optical fiber which allows high precision, selective, label free, and detection of a wide range of analytes The sensor provides a mass sensitivity of 2 Hz/ pg and a LOD of 10 ng/ml.
Receptor Element
Molecularly Imprinted Polymers
MIPs are biomimetic receptors capable of binding a target molecule with similar affinity and specificity to their natural counterparts
TRANSDUCER ELEMENT
Resonating polymer cantilever + Optical fiber
The target molecule changes the mass and varies the resonance frequency of the cantilever.
An optical signal is guided through the optical fiber and measures the frequency variation.
Advantages
- In situ monitoring (results in realtime)
- Multiplexing opportunity
- Label free detection
- Remote operation
- Hundreds of analytes available to target
- low molecular weight analytes
- macromolecules such as proteins
- Flexible use and integration in challenging environments
- Easy system integration
Inventors
Frank BOKELOH, PhD
Karsten HAUPT, Prof
Cédric AYELA, PhD
IMS (Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP)
IP
Patent pending
Contact
Benoît SORE
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