Portable Plasmonic Nanochip for Fast-On-Site Cardiac Troponin Biomarker Quantitative Diagnostic Test

Experimental - Demonstration Project

Project Overview

The project “Portable Plasmonic Nanochip for Fast-On-Site Cardiac Troponin Biomarker Quantitative Diagnostic Test” (acronym NanoFastDiag) aims to design and implement a new concept of portable plasmonic nanochips which enables the sensitive, fast, reliable, on-site detection of the cardiac troponin biomarkers. Specifically, the originality of this proposal consists in the combination of the nanosensing detection with the lab-on-a-chip technology by directly integrating self-assembled highly efficient Gold NanoBipyramids (AuBPs) inside a microfluidic channel with the aim to develop a novel fast-on-site nanochip for cardiac troponin Point-of-Care (POC) diagnostic. We are confident that, by combining the expertise of the two partners involved in the project, such miniaturized, inexpensive, sensitive and highly specific nanochip used in parallel with a portable Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance (LSPR) sensing detection system, can be successfully translated into a real on-site clinical troponin POC test.

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Contact

CS I Habil Dr Monica FOCSANE-mail: monica.iosin@ubbcluj.roTel: 0264454554/116 Nanobiophotonics and Laser Microspectroscopy Center Babes-Bolyai University, 42 Treboniu Laurian, 400271, Cluj Napoca, Romania