Market Overview:
This technology features the development and application of a nanoscale electrical double layer (EDL) capacitor based biosensor. It takes advantage of the fact that the capacitance of an EDL device varies very sensitively with the charge and dielectric conditions of the nearby space spanning from the electrode surface to a few nanometers out to devise EDL capacitive sensors to discriminate any variation or change in the charge and dielectric conditions in that space.
Applications:
· Detection of biological binding or monitoring
· Monitoring of intramembrane events
· Nanopore channel devices for DNA sequencing
· Chemical and biological detection for biomedical purposes, environmental purposes, food safety, homeland security, etc.
· Human genome or DNA testing
Inventors: Guigen Zhang
Protection Status: Patent application filed
Licensing Status: Available for licensing
Additional Terms: Sensing/Sensor, Nanotechnology, Electrical Double Layer (EDL), Capacitor, DNA sequencing
CURF Ref No: 09-018
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