Presentación de Dave Blank, director científico de MESA+Instituto de Nanotecnología de la Universidad de Twente (Países Bajos) durante las jornadas sobre nanotecnología organizada por Grupo FORMAR-SE.
NanotextNL, programa de innovación holandés en nanotecnología
1. Prof. Dave H.A. BLANK Scientific Director MESA+ institute for nanotechnology, NL Chairman NanoNextNL, Dutch initiative on nanotechnology Board NanoNed
26. MESA + Institute for Nanotechnology Inorganic Materials Science Industrial scale pulsed laser deposition 4 – 8”
27. DUTCH INITIATIVE FOR HIGH-TECH SYSTEMS AND MATERIALS TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE OPEN INNOVATION
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MESA+ institute -> ideas, IP, employees (MSc, PhD), research partner
Micronit makes glass microfluidic chips for analysis of fluids Life-sciences markets : diagnostics, biotechnology, farmacy At the moment only prototyping Market demand for high volume chips De heren ir. Micha Mulder en ir. Ronny van ’t Oever zijn uitgeroepen tot ‘Ingenieur van het jaar 2007
Ir. Erik Staijen, afgestudeerd in EL, viert de verkoop van de eerste 100 Blue4Green systemen aan veeartsen. Ir. Erik Staijen, afgestudeerd in EL, viert de verkoop van de eerste 100 Blue4Green systemen aan veeartsen.
An ultrasensitive sensor for rapid detection of micro-organisms such as viruses and bacteria, and biomarkers has been developed at the MESA+ Institute based on a Lab-on-a-Chip Interferometric Nanotechnology. This sensor has been quoted by Forbes.com as one of the “ 13 Amazing New Nanotechnologies ” worldwide! The essential innovation in this technique is the combination of an integrated optics interferometric sensor with antibody-antigen recognition approaches. The sensor basically consists of a laser, which is shone through an optical chip on which several measuring and reference channels are located . To spot a particular virus (or any other analyte), the appropriate antibodies are immobilized onto one of the measuring channels and then a sample containing the virus is flowed through that channel. If the virus particles bind to the antibodies, the interference pattern of the light, which is recorded on a CCD camera, changes, allowing estimation of the concentration. The sensor is able to spot the Herpes virus at concentrations of just 850 particles per milliliter under physiological conditions in a few minutes. The sensitivity of the sensor approaches detection of a single virus particle, yielding a sensor of unprecedented sensitivity with wide applications for viral diagnostics. Detection of other types of viruses, bacteria, cells and biomarkers in complex mediums has been performed as well. The technology is amenable to miniaturization and mass-production, and thus has significant potential to be developed into a handheld, point-of-care device.
Aurel Ymeti en Alma Dudia with their prototype virusdetector