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Primary research interests include design and synthesis of novel nanoscale materials with molecular recognition capabilities, and their fabrication as selective coatings for acoustic and electronic devices. Such chemoselective materials include a range of molecularly imprinted and functional polymers, ceramics, self assembled monolayers, and nanoparticles.
Certainly, the most important part in the development of a chemical sensor is to construct materials (selective layers), which can continuously and selectively detect a specific compound (analyte) or at least a group of similar compounds. Depending upon the application, different types of transducers such as acoustic wave devices, capacitors and/or transistors are fabricated with these selective materials to detect the analyte of interest in gas and solution states.
Over the past few years, a range of nanostructured materials have been designed and tested in aquesous solutions and viscous environments such as engie oils. Currently the key focus is to design metal and metal oxide composite nanostructures for high temperature gas sensing applications. Additional information in this regard would be posted soon.
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