Label Free Sensing
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The group also collaborates with:
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The Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pisa (G.Barillaro), who drove the research finalized to the development of optical sensors based on photonic crystals;
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The Department of Industrial and Information Engineering of the Second University of Naples (N. Cennamo, L. Zeni), who drove the research activity for the development of SPR-based optical sensors Within this collaboration, a thermo-stabilized flow cell was designed and implemented for the integration of plastic optical fiber (POF) SPR sensors. The effectiveness of the new complete optical sensing platform has been demonstrated for biomarkers detection. The experimental results showed that the POF-SPR sensor, integrated into the ad-hoc developed thermo-stabilized microfluidic system that allowed to avoid any thermal and/or mechanical fluctuation and to maintain the best stable conditions during the measurements, is appropriate for biochemical applications, even in a real and complex environment such as serum.
