NANOSENSORS NANOSENSORS

BY SHALINI V K EC 7 NO:51

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION WHY NANOSENSORS? MANUFACTURING METHODS TOP DOWN TECHNIQUES REPRESENTATION OF RECOGNITION PRINCIPLE AND APPLICATIONS OF NANOSENSORS ADVANTAGES APPLICATION DISADVANTAGES

FUTURE NANOSENSORS CONCLUSION REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION
Sensor Instrument that respond to physical stimulus Collects and measures data. Important part of measurement application Nanosensors Provide information about nanoparticles May be biological, chemical or surgical sensory points Used as gateways to build other nanoproducts

NANOSENSORS DEFINITION
Defined as A chemical or physical sensor constructed using nanoscale components, usually microscopic in size.

WHY NANOSENSORS?
They are smaller than the characteristic lengths associated with the specific phenomena Miniaturization of devices Science of nano materials deals with new phenomena Ultra sensitive

Very small quantities of samples can be analyzed direct detection is possible reduced detection time than conventional methods

MANUFACTURING METHODS
1. TOP DOWN LITHOGRAPHY 2. BOTTOM UP APPROACH 3. MOLECULAR SELF ASSEMBLY

Top down approach

Mainly 3 sub approaches Bulk or film machining Surface machining Mould machining Commonly used method

TOP DOWN TECHNIQUES

Bulk-/film-machining

 Surface machining

Mould machining

Nanosensor

Recognition principle

Transducing mechanism

biosensor

DNA Enzymes Antibodies Molecular recognition

Optical Electrochemical Thermal

APPLICATIONS
IN MEDICAL FIELD Cancer detection Detect asthma attacks To check glucose level of diabetic patients AEROSPACE INDUSTRY SECURITY APPLICATIONS SnifferSTAR

Medical and security field

Blue crab sensor
Key component - chitosan Interact with a wide variety of substances Detect minute quantities of bioagents,toxins etc

Work using multiple mini vibrating structures coated with chitosan optical sensing technology

SECURITY APPLICATIONS
sniffer STAR nano-enabled chemical sensor Integrated into a micro unmanned aerial vehicle Light weight portable chemical detection system Nanomaterial for sample collection Mems based detector

sniffer STAR

ADVANTAGES
High reliability High sensitivity Miniaturization Less power consumption Dynamic tunability

DISADVANTAGES
High cost Not suitable for widespread use Less selectivity and detection range

Future Nanosensors
Improving activity of gene therapy Oral vaccinations Magnetite - dextran nanoparticles for MRI diagnosis of liver, lymph node, vascular diseases

Conclusion

Founded by Nanotechnology pioneer Dr. Olaf Ohlsson, Nanosensors heads the world market with its innovative high quality scanning probes for SPM Nanosensors has contributed to many scientific breakthroughs in Nanotechnology

REFERENCES
www.ieee.org www.ieeexplore.org www.seminarsonly.com www.technologyreview.com

Nanoparticle sensors for quantitative intracellular chemical analysis [IEEE,Nov 2008]

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