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Bio-functionalization study of Memristive- Biosensors for Early Detection of Prostate Cancer

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Ioulia Tzouvadaki

Silicon nanowires are reported for their application in bio sensing area and their potential in the detection of various biomolecules. In the present work, freestanding two-terminal Schottky-barrier silicon nanowire arrays exhibiting memristive behavior ar ...

2015

Faradic Peaks Enhanced by Carbon Nanotubes in Microsomal Cytochrome P450 Electrodes

Christian Müller, Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Camilla Baj-Rossi

In this work we present an investigation on the behavior of microsomes containing human cytochrome P450 in cyclic voltammetry for drug detection. The microsomes are adsorbed on the surface of multi-walled carbon nanotubes by drop-casting. We demonstrate th ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Wireless Monitoring in Intensive Care Units by a 3D-Printed System with Embedded Electronics

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino, Stefano Riario, Francesca Stradolini, Flavia Basilotta, Danilo Demarchi

The design, realization, and preliminary test of a portable wireless system for measuring key metabolites (e.g., glucose, lactate, calcium, potassium, etc..) in intensive cure monitoring is presented. The system is composed by a 3D-Printed case, which incl ...

2015

Memristive Biosensors for PSA-IgM Detection

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Ioulia Tzouvadaki

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men except for skin cancer, and the detection at early stages is crucial. In the present work, nanofabricated memristive biosensors are subjected to surface bio-modification targeting at prostate-specific ant ...

2015

A Subcutaneous Biochip for Remote Monitoring of Human Metabolism: Packaging and Biocompatibility Assessment

Giovanni De Micheli, Andrea Cavallini, Sandro Carrara, Jacopo Olivo, Seyedeh Sara Ghoreishizadeh

This paper represents the extended version of the conference paper “Developing highly-integrated subcutaneous biochips for remote monitoring of human metabolism” pre- sented at the IEEE Sensors Conference 2012, and presents data on assembly, packaging and ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Electrochemical nanostructured biosensors: carbon nanotubes versus conductive and semi-conductive nanoparticles

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino, Nima Aliakbarinodehi, Gianluca Piccinini

The aim of this work was to demonstrate that various types of nanostructures provide different gains in terms of sensitivity or detection limit albeit providing the same gain in terms of increased area. Commercial screen printed electrodes (SPEs) were func ...

De Gruyter Open Ltd2015

Full System for Translational Studies of Personalized Medicine with Free-Moving Mice (invited)

Catherine Dehollain, Giovanni De Micheli, Cristina Boero, Sandro Carrara, Enver Gürhan Kilinç, Camilla Baj-Rossi, Seyedeh Sara Ghoreishizadeh, Grégoire Casimir Joseph Surrel, Stefano Riario, Francesca Stradolini

A full remotely powered system for metabolism monitoring of free-moving mice is presented here. The fully implantable sensing platform hosts two ASICs, one off-the-shelf micro-controller, four biosensors, two other sensors, a coil to receive power, and an ...

2015

Modeling Memristive Biosensors

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Puppo, Ioulia Tzouvadaki

In the present work, a computational study is carried out investigating the relationship between the biosensing and the electrical characteristics of two-terminal Schottky- barrier silicon nanowire devices. The model suggested successfully reproduces compu ...

2015

Highly Sensitive Electrodic Materials Based on Pt Nanoflowers Grown on Pt Nanospheres for Biosensor Development

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino

In this work we describe the realization of monometallic nanostructures by two simple electrodeposition steps. The surface of the modified electrode was characterized by scanning electron microscopy that confirms a homogeneous deposition of Pt nanospheres ...

2015

A novel cmos image sensor with event/change detection and reduced data redundancy

Giovanni De Micheli, Gözen Köklü, Sandro Carrara

A Digital Pixel Sensor (DPS) based CMOS camera configured to record frames and comprising an event detection sensor configured to look for an event happening in a determined frame, comprising an array of event detection pixels, a first reference voltage ge ...

2014

High-Performance Multipanel Biosensors Based on a Selective Integration of Nanographite Petals

László Forró, Arnaud Magrez, Giovanni De Micheli, Andrea Cavallini, Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino, Federico Matteini

We report the first selective growth of nanographite petals and various carbon nanomaterials onto a multipanel electrochemical platform. Different types of nanomaterials can be obtained by fine-tuning the growth parameters of the chemical vapor deposition ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Design, development, and validation of an in-situ biosensor array for metabolite monitoring of cell cultures

Marco Mazza, Giovanni De Micheli, Cristina Boero, Sandro Carrara, Jacopo Olivo, Maria Antonietta Casulli, Lorenzo Foglia

Conventional pharmaceutical processes involving cell culture growth are generally taken under control with expensive and long laboratory tests performed by direct sampling to evaluate quality. This traditional and well-established approach is just partiall ...

Elsevier2014

A Lightweight Cryptographic System for Implantable Biosensors

Tolga Yalçin, Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Seyedeh Sara Ghoreishizadeh, Wayne Burleson

This paper presents a lightweight cryptographic system integrated onto a multi-function implantable biosensor prototype. The resulting heterogeneous system provides a unique and fundamental capability by immediately encrypting and signing the sensor data u ...

2014

An Integrated Control and Readout Circuit for Implantable Multi-Target Electrochemical Biosensing

Giovanni De Micheli, Andrea Cavallini, Sandro Carrara, Camilla Baj-Rossi, Seyedeh Sara Ghoreishizadeh

We describe an integrated biosensor capable of sensing multiple molecular targets using both cyclic voltammetry (CV) and chronoamperometry (CA). In particular, we present our custom IC to realize voltage control and current readout of the bio ...

2014

Do Carbon Nanotubes Contribute to Electrochemical Biosensing?

Giovanni De Micheli, Cristina Boero, Sandro Carrara, Camilla Baj-Rossi

Carbon nanotubes have been attracting a lot of interest as electron transfer mediators to enhance electrochemical biosensing. The main reason behind this is usually recognized in terms of augmented electrochemical active surface area. The aim of this paper ...

Elsevier2014

Efficient voltammetric discrimination of free bilirubin from uric acid and ascorbic acid by a CVD nanographite-based microelectrode

László Forró, Arnaud Magrez, Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino

We report a novel electrochemical sensor based on nanographite grown on platinum microelectrodes for the determination of bilirubin in the presence of normal concentrations of albumin. The albumin is a protein with an intrinsic ability to bind the bilirubi ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014

Micro-fabrication of high-thickness spiral inductors for the remote powering of implantable biosensors

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Jacopo Olivo

A micro-fabrication process is proposed to realize high-thickness spiral inductors for the remote powering of implantable biosensors through inductive link. The process is suitable for different substrates, such as silicon and Pyrex, and enables the fabric ...

Elsevier2014

Direct and selective synthesis of a wide range of carbon nanomaterials by CVD at CMOS compatible temperatures

László Forró, Arnaud Magrez, Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino

Biosensors benefit from specific nano- to monitor human metabolites [1], [2]. Moreover, small structuration of the active bio-interface layer. In this electrodes allow us to design many sensing sites, each perspective, a wide range of carbon nanomaterials ...

2014

Memristor-Based Devices for Sensing

Massimiliano Di Ventra, Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Puppo

In this paper we propose CMOS-compatible Memristive-Biosensors as label-free, highly sensitive sensors for in-air detection of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) molecules. The memristive behavior of the fabricated devices is strongly affec ...

2014

i-Needle: Detecting the Biological Mechanisms of Acupuncture

Sandro Carrara

American Association for the Advancement of Science2014

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