Thrust 3: Enabling Technologies for Improved Detection
Goals
- Create reliable, stand-alone sensor platforms capable of detecting nitrogen and phosphorus in real time, at low cost, and in challenging settings
- Investigate the use of paper-based devices for low-cost, wide-scale community-driven sensing of nitrogen and phosphorus
- Create a new and versatile class of sensors that are more specific or more sensitive than existing sensors
Expected Outcomes
- Improved understanding of the molecular-level challenges of sensing in complex aquatic environments
- Improved understanding of the performance capabilities of SERS in complex media
- Improved understanding of surface fouling phenomena and countermeasures
- New understanding of the potential of micro-fluidic biosensors for analyte detection.
Rhode Island EPSCoR is funded by the National Science Foundation under EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Award #OIA-1655221 (Sept. 2017-Aug. 2022). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.