The ability to measure many chemical and biochemical components simultaneously has been facilitated by the advent of arrays using advances in micro and nanotechnology.  Such arrays offer the potential to create nearly universal sensors that can measure thousands of species simultaneously.  Our laboratory has developed functionalized optical imaging fibers as a platform for creating microarrays.  These arrays contain thousands of individual sensing polymeric microspheres on each fiber bundle.    Many different types of arrays can be prepared using this approach including arrays for single molecule detection.  Both the development and commercialization of these arrays will be discussed.

Polymeric microspheres as a platform for sensing and detection

245th National Meeting (2013)

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