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Nanoelectronic Systems and Biomaterials


Tobacco Mosaic Virus biotemplated nano-electrodes

This work demonstrates the utilization of virus molecules as nano-scale biotemplates assembled on an electrochemical biosensor, allowing for increased signal and improved biosensing performance. The versatile and inexpensive biological Tobacco mosaic virus was integrated as a high aspect ratio, low footprint, low-cost, easy to genetically functionalize, nanostructured three-dimensional scaffold for the synthesis of novel multifunctional electrodes. The biotemplated scaffold allows for an increased surface area resulting in higher electrochemical currents, better signal-to-noise ratio and improved sensitivity when incorporated into miniaturized biosensors.
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Selected Accomplishments:

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Students and Postdocs:

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Collaborators:

Professor James Culver (University of Maryland College Park)
Professor Gary Rubloff (University of Maryland College Park)
Professor Reza Ghodssi (University of Maryland College Park)

Support:

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Selected Publications:

  • Ben-Yoav, H., Brown, A. D., Pomerantseva, E., Kelly, D. L., Culver, J. N., and Ghodssi, R. Tobacco mosaic virus biotemplated electrochemical biosensor. Proceedings of the 2012 Hilton Head Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop, June, 2012, Hilton Head, South Carolina, United States, pp. 193-196. 
  • Ben-Yoav, H., Schroeder, M. A., Noked, M. Chitosan bio-functionalization of carbon nanotube arrayed electrode. Advanced Materials Letters 8(12), pp. 1166.
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