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BMNL's SENSORS
Various sensing schemes involving collaboration of interdisciplinary techniques to engineer smart sensors

The mission of the Bio Medical Micro Devices and Nanotechnology (BMN Lab) is to develop "lab-on-a-chip" based devices. Our focus is to build devices for health care, environmental and defense applications that are locally relevant and globally significant. We collaborate strongly with researchers from Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU), and members under the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI) umbrella, and local and regional companies interested in sensor development.

Select from the projects below and click the Details button to view the information for that project.





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Nanomonitors- Electrical Immunoassays
The goal of this project is to develop a portable device that can function as an Immunoassay system and identify a particular disease by detecting classes of proteins that are indicative of a disease state.  .  .  .  





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Electrokinetics Based Biomolecule Sensors
The goal of this project is to electrically detect biomolecules by building "lab-on-a-chip" based devices that enable bio-molecule positioning on to the detection sites using electrokinetic effects.  .  .  .  





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Environmental Sensors for Hydrocarbon Detection
The goal of this project is to develop a generic electrical detection technique based on "lab-on-a-chip" device technology to identify environmental pollutants based on "electrical fingerprints".  .  .  .  

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Nanocomposite Based Gas Sensors
The goal of this project is to develop gas sensors functioning on the chemiresistive principle-variations in the resistance of the polymer encapsulated active sensing element ( nanocomposite).  .  .  .  





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Nanomaterial Based Protein Sensors
The goal of this project is to develop an integrated process of patterning nanomaterial in a meaningful manner to develop functional nanoelectronic devices.  .  .  .  





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Light Emitting Devices Based Biosensors
The goal of this project is to develop a layer by layer assembled light emitting device with tunable optical characterizing correlating to the detection of specific agents.  .  .  .  

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Nanomaterial Assembly Towards Device Development
The goal of this project is to develop a functional ultrasensitive biosensor capable of detecting proteins from physiological media.  .  .  .  





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Optical Biosensors
The goal of this project is to develop an optical biosensor based on microphotonic principles to distinguish specific biomolecules. The long term goal is to develop an integrated on-a-chip type device that can rapidly screen biomolecules producing specific optical signatures as the mechanism of identification.  .  .  .  






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