A lab on a chip: using nano-plasmonics tongues for building miniaturized ecosystem sensors
Lead Research Organisation:
University of St Andrews
Department Name: Biology
Abstract
Sustainability and human wellbeing depend on resources from marine and freshwater systems, and to monitor how they are changing, a range of observations are needed. In situ measurements of physical water properties like temperature and salinity are almost trivial, but higher-level sensors that address biogeochemical properties, or even trophic levels, are often complicated, expensive or need expert operation. Therefore, there is a desperate need for instrumentation that can deliver in-situ, real time information from physics to biology in aquatic ecosystems supporting researchers, industry, policy makers and the public. A recent technological development of ours that could address this problem is the realisation of a passive "artificial tongue" device capable of detecting and classifying a myriad of complex chemical mixtures in real-time.
In this project, we will use this new class of nano-scale sensor in an aquatic environment for the first time. Through the development of a portable tongue device specifically tuned for aquatic field measurements you will aim to demonstrate a versatile, low- power, high-resolution optical sensor array capable of classifying and identifying a range of physical, biological and ecosystem indicators.
In this project, we will use this new class of nano-scale sensor in an aquatic environment for the first time. Through the development of a portable tongue device specifically tuned for aquatic field measurements you will aim to demonstrate a versatile, low- power, high-resolution optical sensor array capable of classifying and identifying a range of physical, biological and ecosystem indicators.
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
Lars Boehme (Primary Supervisor) | |
Greig Govenlock (Student) |
Studentship Projects
Project Reference | Relationship | Related To | Start | End | Student Name |
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NE/S007342/1 | 30/09/2019 | 29/09/2028 | |||
2459827 | Studentship | NE/S007342/1 | 26/09/2020 | 26/03/2024 | Greig Govenlock |