| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/M67483/01 |
| Title: |
ADAPTIVE TOOLS FOR THE CHARACTERISATION OF CHEMICAL SPACE |
| Principal Investigator: |
Barrow, Professor D |
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Sch of Engineering |
| Organisation: |
Cardiff University |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 1999 |
Ends: |
30 September 2001 |
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120,310
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The long-term goal is to develop robust, electrochromatographic sensing systems for analytical science which are suitable for the mass production of inexpensive devices using only minimally modified standard microfabrication techniques. This is aimed to meet the widely-recognised need for screening techniques which provide indications (alarm signals) when a system under scrutiny (e.g. river catchment) veers significantly in chemical characteristics from a given expectation. This will provide a generic technology for a plethora of industrial applications and allow uptake by SMEs which are most likely to address the numerous niche markets that exist for environmental technologies in analytical science and are characteristic of the existing UK instrumentation industry. The specific aims of this proposal are to evaluate the use of semi-conductive, chemically derivatised, porous silicon, as planarised analogues to chromatography support media in microstrip format and ii) examine patterns (signatures) of differential sorption-induced impedance variations with such arrays when challenged with altered environmental samples as a novel means of adaptive chemical characterisation and tolerance thresholding. These objectives will be met through an interdisciplinary collaborative industrial partnership with MSTB Ltd and XTEC Ltd and builds upon the output from a previous nanotechnology pump-priming project on porous silicon.
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