ENGS 159 Molecular Sensors & Nanodevices in Biomedical Engineering
Introduction
to fundamentals and major types of molecular sensor systems, scaling laws of
device miniaturization, and detection mechanisms, including molecular capture
mechanisms; electrical, optical, and mechanical transducers; micro-array
analysis of biomolecules; semiconductor and metal nanosensors; microfluidic
systems; and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS, BioMEMS) design, fabrication
and applications for bioengineering.
Three
lab sessions are designed to gain hands-on experience on microfluidic chip and
soft lithography, gold nanorods-based biomolecular sensors, micro-reactors
using colloidal chemistry in engineering of nanoparticles for biomedical
applications in sensing and imaging.
Instructor
Zhang