NanoIP-BioS · Advanced 2D-material integrated photonics technologies for bio sensing
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2021-07-06 → 2023-07-05
- EU contribution
- €224,934
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF
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Results in brief
Advanced 2D-material integrated photonics technologies for bio sensing
Problem Statement: Rapid industrialization has led to widespread pollution, impacting human life profoundly. Heavy metal ions permeate the environment through various means: air, water, and soil. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) estimates lead exposure alone causes 540,000 deaths and 13.9 million years of healthy life lost globally. Hence, early detection of toxic heavy metals is vital.Traditional detection methods suffer from laborious sample prep, bulky equipment, and slow data processing. There is an urgent need for innovative, rapid, and sensitive approaches to overcome these limitations and address heavy metal exposure's health risks.Photonics technology, particularly photonic sensing, offers advantages for in-situ, real-time, multiplex analysis in diverse bioapplications. This project carried out research on fiber optical sensing for light-matter interactions aiming at heavy metal detection and explored novel microstructures, mechanical adjustments, and 2D-nanomaterial coatings for enhanced sensitivity. These include tilted fiber gratings (TFGs) for highly sensitivity to surrounding changes and 2D materials. Societal impact: Multiplexed heavy metal detection remains a challenge due to flexibility, specificity, sensitivity, and selectivity constraints. Addressing this challenge requires continuous research and this contribution of this project will produce significant societal impacts including food security and environment to name a few only. For environment , this technology can help safeguard ecosystems, wildlife, and public health by providing early warnings of environmental hazards and ensuring regulatory compliance. For food safety, thie technology will enhance food safety by detecting contaminants, pathogens, and spoilage indicators in food products. This ensures the production of safer and healthier food, reducing the risk of foodborne illnesses and promoting public well-being. Objectives: NanoIP-BioS aims to: 1. Enhance photonics and biophotonics expertise. 2. Develop novel photo-bio architectures for improved light-matter interaction. 3. Integrate advanced 2D materials with photonic components. 4. Enable ultrahigh sensitivity, selectivity, label-free, real-time, rapid detection techniques. 5. Implement biochemical detection for environmental monitoring and protection.
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Project objective
The key research goal of the project “Advanced 2D-material integrated photonics technologies for bio sensing (NanoIP-BioS)” is to enhance the leadership and research capability of the Marie Curie Fellow Dr Bing Sun, via implementing a highly challenging and innovative research project focused on the development of high sensitive and selective photonic biosensors by exploring two-dimensional (2D)-nanomaterial, i.e. graphene oxide (GO), black-phosphorus (BP) and MXene, and fibre microsensor structures for applications in food and water safety, environmental monitoring, and healthcare sectors. 2D-material have received significant attentions due to their unique mechanical, electronic, optical and chemical properties. Especially, black-phosphorus and MXene are a new family of 2D transition-metals that are analogous to graphene oxide. Because of their easy availability, hydrophilic behaviour, and tunable chemistry, graphene oxide, black-phosphorus and MXene have been recently explored for environmental pollution remediation such as heavy metal ions detection in water, soil, air and so on. This project will exploit new emerging opportunities with the integration of photonic technologies (fibre gratings, fibre tapers, photonic crystal fibres, fibre lasers) and advanced 2D-material (GO , MXene , BP ) to develop a range of new, highly sensitive, label-free, rapid and promising performance photonic biosensors to address EU and WHO raised issues in water and food safety and general public health care. The Fellow Dr Bing Sun from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), China, will be trained in the fast growing photonics science, technology and application area at the host - Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies (AIPT, supervisor: Prof Lin Zhang, Female), Aston University, UK, with further two EU academic institutes (Aalto University Finland, Valencia University Spain) and two industry companies (Arden Photonics UK and VTT Finland).
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Participants
- ASTON UNIVERSITY · BirminghamCoordinatorUnited Kingdom
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