QLS GUEST SEMINAR - Wednesday, 12 June 14h00

[Quantitative Life Sciences]

QUANTITATIVE LIFE SCIENCES GUEST SEMINAR

Wednesday, 12 June at 14:00
ICTP, Central Area, 2nd floor, SISSA Building, via Beirut 2


Speaker: Sangeeta Kale - Defence Institute of Advanced Technology 
(DIAT), Pune, India


Title: Nanotechnology-based advanced sensors
for surveillance, stealth and healthcare


Abstract:
Sensors are an integral part of any instrumentation, mechanical 
assembly, automobile engineering, heavy engineering, drug-delivery 
vehicles, national surveillance gadgets or any electromagnetic 
application unit, such as antennas and communication electronics. A need 
for smart, adaptive, miniaturized, extremely sensitive, selective and 
rapid sensor is always on anvil. Nanomaterials are offering promising 
options to improve the conventional sensors and to develop advanced 
sensors which would be adaptive, faster, selective and more precise. 
Nanotechnology has been dominating applied research frontiers for more 
than a decade now. The research has an emphasis on exploring novel 
materials with exotic properties, which are attributed to their 
nano-size-regimes. Typically explored examples are metals, oxides and 
chalcogenides, in their pure and composite forms.
Through this presentation a brief outline on the progress of science and 
technology, in the domain of sensors will be given. Frequency 
detections; low-field and frequency (electric and magnetic fields and 
ultra-low-frequency signals), high frequency (radio frequencies in Radar 
range) detections will be discussed. Biosensors being developed for 
disease diagnostics and smart drug delivery vehicles would be also 
elaborated in this presentation. Various approaches used in the 
investigators laboratory would be elaborated; namely, the optical fiber 
approach, metamaterial approach and conventional resistive approach. The 
relationships of the obtained properties would be associated with the 
physics and chemistry at nano-level and their energy dynamics for 
sensing a particular physical parameter.


Everyone interested is most welcome to attend!

Indico web page: http://indico.ictp.it/event/8978/

-- 
Erica Sarnataro
Group Secretary
Quantitative Life Sciences
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Trieste,  Italy
Tel. +39-040-2240623
www.ictp.it/research/qls.aspx
e-mail: qls at ictp.it