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NewsletterMay2011
Sensor100 Updates
The UK Technology Strategy Board has announced that Sensor Systems is among ten candidiate technology areas from which three will be selected to form the basis of a Technology Innovation Centre
BCC Researchreports the market for biosensors and chemical sensors is expected to experience the highest growth among sensor types, at a compound annual growth rate of 9.6% during the 5-year period from 2011 to 2016; this sector is expected to be worth $13 billion in 2011 and $21 billion in 2016
The Institute of Bio-Sensing Technology, Bristol UK is holding a series of four half-day Master Classes in June and July: Stem cells (21 June); Biosensors (28 June); MEMS (6 July); Biophotonics (13 July)
The 2011-2016 outlook for Chemical Sensors in Japan is available as pdf file
Call for Papers...
Call for papers for Biosensors 2012 to be held in Cancun, Mexico May 2012; deadline November 25th 2011 for online submissions
Call for papers for Electrochem 2011 at the University of Bath UK 5-6 September 2011; full program details here
Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220; CODEN: SENSC9), the open access journal on the science and technology of sensors and biosensors, has a number of special issues open (deadline):
Belgium based Imec, whichperforms world-leading research in nanoelectronics, reported solid performance in its 2010 annual report, with revenues of Euro 285m and 8% increase in staff to 1895
Heska Corp, a leading supplier of veterinary diagnostics, announces a platform technology agreement withRapid Diagnostek, Inc.The platform uses biosensors with a battery-powered instrument to detect pathogens, proteins and other bio-molecules in 60 seconds from blood, urine, saliva or other liquids
Ocean Optics has released a hand held oxygen sensing system NeoFox Sport,a fluorescence-based optical oxygen sensing system which unlike elctrochemical sensors is immune to changes in pH, salinity and ionic strength
SAW Instruments GmbH, announced the launch of the sam®5 GREEN acoustic biosensor, and the availability of its family of sam®5 acoustic biosensors in the US market;based on SAW’s proprietary Surface Acoustic Wave technology, sam®5 offers precise, real-time, label-free measurement of biomolecular interactions
Technology News...
A new kind of sensor developed by Michael Sailor at UC San Diego could warn emergency workers when carbon filters in the respirators they wear to avoid inhaling toxic fumes have become dangerously saturated
Triacetone triperoxide, an explosive that's been used in past shoe-bombing attempts, is a difficult chemical to detect, butKenneth Suslick and Hengwei Lin of the University of Illinoishave developed a colorimetric sensor array that can expose minute amounts of TATP vapor in the air
Reported tests of a new antibody-based “biosensor” developed by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science show that it can detect marine pollutants like oil much faster and more cheaply than current technologies
MIT chemical engineers led by Michael Strano have created explosive sensors by coating carbon nanotubes — hollow, one-atom-thick cylinders made of pure carbon — with protein fragments normally found in bee venom. This is the first time those proteins have been shown to react to explosives, specifically a class known as nitro-aromatic compounds that includes TNT
Scientists led by Sotiris Pratsinis, at ETH Zurich’s Particle Technology Laboratory of the Institute of Process Engineering, have now succeeded in preparing silver nano particles by coating them with silicon dioxide that prevents the release of toxic silver ions but leaves their optical – so-called plasmonic – properties intact; the particles can be used in medicine as plasmonic sensors to identify pathogens or for therapeutic purposes
Vanderbilt University engineers have created a “spongy” silicon biosensor that shows promise not only for medical diagnostics, but also for the detection of dangerous toxins and other tiny molecules in the environment. This innovation was originally designed to detect the presence of particular DNA sequences, which can be extremely helpful in identifying whether or not a person is predisposed to heart disease or certain kinds of cancer
People News...
Dr. Rodney Banks, Research Fellow at Nalco, is to receive the2011 SCI Perkin Medal for his work on a broad suite of technologies incorporating chemical and mechanical sensors for intelligent monitoring and control of industrial water and process applications that have saved more than 300 billion gallons of fresh water at thousands of customer locations around the world
The Last Word...
In which we try to bring you the more unusual sensor related news items of the month.
A remarkable advance in nanotube construction using metal-organic building blocks from Kazuya Otsubo and Hiroshi Kitagawa from Kyoto and Kyushu Universities in Japan. These researchers created their metal-organic nanotubes through the simple polymerization of a square metal-organic framework. The fundamental building block is a complex of platinum atoms and nitrate anions, connected by organic ligands (ethylenediamine and 4,4'-bipyridine), to form a square-shaped motif with a side length of 2 nm. The result is an amazing 3-dimensional structurestructure - science and art meet!
The UK has managed to squeeze in 5 public holidays in the past 6+ weeks. No more now until August - so time to catch up on the Sensor100 developments I promised at the
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