Concept
Smart hybrid nano-materials with higher knowledge-content, tailored properties and predictable performance can have a potential enormous impact in on chemical and bio-sensing areas. For example in the field of water purification the increasing shortage of water supply has lead to the implementation of recycling plants for both potable water and technological applications requiring both low cost and fast contaminant detection technologies.
Motivation
Semiconductor, pharmaceutical and power plant industries requiring low detection of contaminants are at present facing the problem of having to implement prohibitively expensive detection techniques in order to comply with lower and lower specifications for all contaminant levels in ultrapure water.
Another case is the clinical diagnostic area, where there is an increasing demand for development of innovative low cost electrolyte analysis technologies that could be applied for example in emergency rooms to obtain fast indication for the diagnosis of specific diseases. The need exist for fast, low cost, integrable novel materials with sub-nM detection capabilities.
Objectives
The main objective of the HYSENS project is to harness the complementary properties of organic functional materials and inorganic nanocrystals to fabricate novel hybrid materials:
Inbuilt high-knowledge content arising from controlled synthetic methodologies.
Engineered functionalities leading to low false sensing outputs therefore leading to enhanced selectivity and sensitivity
Integrable into large area platforms towards development of smart optical and electronic sensing technologies.
For detection of group I and II ions and anions.
