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Graphene sheets allow for very-low-cost diagnostic devices

20-Mar-2017

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Could make it possible to capture and analyze individual cells from a small sample of blood.

Specially treated sheets of graphene oxide produced using low-temperature annealing.

Can attach chemicals to the surface to select and bond with specific molecules of interest or even whole cells.

Next step is to try to make a working detector for a specific disease model.

The study was published in the ACS Nano journal.

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ACS Nano

Journal about nanoscience and nanotechnology

Angela Belcher

James Mason Crafts Professor of Biological Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at MIT.

Guan-Yu Chen

Associate Professor at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at the National Chiao Tung University.

Jeffrey C. Grossman

Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the MIT.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Private land-grant research university

National Chiao Tung University (NCTU)

Public research university in Hsinchu, Taiwan.

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