Nanosensors. 3 credits

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This course discusses a wide range of sensing mechanisms, including fluorescent sensing, nanocantilever oscillators, electrochemical detection, optical and plasmonic sensing, and magnetic detection. This course discusses types of nanomaterials, such as gold nanoparticles, quantum dots, graphene, graphene oxides, magnetic nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, inorganic nanowires/nanorods, plasmonic nanostructures, photonic crystals, carbon nanotubes, fullerenes, fluorescent and biological molecules, and nanostructured silicon. This course explains how to utilize the unique properties of nanomaterials to develop high performance Nanosensors. This course also introduces various types of nano sensors including temperature, strain, light, spectrophotometric, pulse oximeter, optical fiber probes, fluorescence, pH, ion-selective electrodes, piezoelectric, glucose, DNA and immunosensors, microfluidic and paper-based lab-on-a-chip devices. Offered by Mechanical Engineering . Limited to two attempts.