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New probe immobilizations by lipoate-diethalonamine or ethylene-glycol molecules for capacitance DNA chip

Bruno Samori, Giovanni De Micheli, Yusuf Leblebici, Sandro Carrara, Luca Benini, Andrea Cavallini

Label–free DNA detection is of crucial role to when developing point-of-care biochips to be used in personalized therapy. Capacitance detection is a promising technology for label-free DNA detection. However, data published in literature often show evident ...

2009

A Novel Microfluidic System for Capacitive Detection Via Magnetophoretic Separation of Malaria-Infected Red Blood Cells

Clémentine Monique Naïm, Théo Jules Domange, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Rodino, Ali Meimandi, Amirmahdi Tavakolidakhrabadi

Malaria continues to pose a significant global health challenge, with substantial impediments arising from the need for more reliable, effective, and economically viable diagnostic tools, particularly for early detection. This research introduces a novel m ...

2024

Microfluidics by Additive Manufacturing for Wearable Biosensors: A Review

Christian Enz, Sandro Carrara

Wearable devices are nowadays at the edge-front in both academic research as well as in industry, and several wearable devices have been already introduced in the market. One of the most recent advancements in wearable technologies for biosensing is in the ...

2020

Fabrication and Packaging of a Fully Implantable Biosensor Array

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Catherine Dehollain, Camilla Baj-Rossi, Seyedeh Sara Ghoreishizadeh, Enver Gürhan Kilinç

In this work, we showed the realization of a fully- implantable device that integrates a microfabricated sensing platform, a coil for power and data transmission and integrated circuits. We described a device intended to test the biocompati- bility of the ...

2013

Novel Readout Circuit for Memristive Biosensors in Cancer Detection

Ali Zaher, Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Puppo

We present a novel circuit for the automated and quick characterization of an array of experimental memristive nanowires that are functionalized as biosensors. Successfully functionalized nanowires will express the concentration of target molecules by hyst ...

IEEE2014

Continuous monitoring of propofol in human serum with fouling compensation by support vector classifier

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Danilo Demarchi, Francesca Criscuolo, Simone Aiassa, Francesco Grassi, Mandresy Ivan Ny Hanitra, Tiberiu Totu

We present a new method for electrochemical sensing, which compensates the fouling effect of propofol through machine learning (ML) model. Direct and continuous monitoring of propofol is crucial in the development of automatic systems for control of drug i ...

Elsevier2020

A Self-Contained System With CNTs-Based Biosensors for Cell Culture Monitoring

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Cristina Boero, Jacopo Olivo

Biosensors have been applied to disparate fields, especially for endogenous compounds such as glucose and lactate. The main areas of application are certainly related to medical and diagnostic purposes. However, metabolic monitoring can be also of interest ...

2012

Targeting of multiple metabolites in neural cells monitored by using protein-based carbon nanotubes

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Cristina Boero

Microdevices dedicated to monitor metabolite levels have recently enabled many applications in the field of cell analysis, to monitor cell growth and development of numerous cell lines. By combining the traditional technology used for electrochemical biose ...

2011

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

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

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

Memristor-Based Devices for Sensing

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

Bodily implant microelectrode and bodily implant microelectrode fabrication method

Sandro Carrara, Diego Ghezzi, Gian Luca Barbruni

The present invention concerns a bodily implantable or probe device and microelectrode fabrication method comprising providing at least one silicon substrate including an electronic device or unit; providing, on a first side of the silicon substrate, at le ...

2024

Pencil Graphite Needle-Shaped Biosensor for Anaesthetic Monitoring in Human Serum

Sandro Carrara, Danilo Demarchi, Simone Aiassa

Direct and online continuous monitoring of anaesthetic intake by the patient's blood stream improves practices in the critical procedure of anaesthesia. Several systems have been proposed to address this challenge. Electrochemical techniques are highly app ...

IEEE2020

Fully Integrated Biochip Platforms for Advanced Healthcare

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Catherine Dehollain, Irene Taurino, Camilla Baj-Rossi, Andrea Cavallini, Jacopo Olivo, Seyedeh Sara Ghoreishizadeh, Wayne Burleson

Recent advances in microelectronics and biosensors are enabling developments of innovative biochips for advanced healthcare by providing fully integrated platforms for continuous monitoring of a large set of human disease biomarkers. Continuous monitoring ...

Mdpi Ag2012

Biochips for Regenerative Medicine: Real-time Stem Cell Continuous Monitoring as Inferred by High-Throughput Gene Analysis

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara

Regenerative medicine is a novel clinical branch aiming at the cure of diseases by replacement of damaged tissues. The crucial use of stem cells makes this area rich of challenges, given the poorly understood mechanisms of differentiation. One highly neede ...

2011

Biocompatible and Biodegradable 3D Printing from Bioplastics: A Review

Sandro Carrara

There has been a lot of interest in developing and producing biodegradable polymers to address the current environmental problem caused by the continued usage of synthetic polymers derived from petroleum products. Bioplastics have been identified as a poss ...

MDPI2023

Flexible Memristive Biosensors for Sensitive Detection of Prostate-Specific Antigen in Biological Environments

Sandro Carrara

In this work, we developed flexible polymer-based memristive-like devices specifically designed for biosensing applications. The fabricated devices consist of two gold electrodes connected by a biocompatible polymeric resistive layer made of poly(3,4-ethyl ...

2025

A Lightweight Cryptographic System for Implantable Biosensors

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

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

Portable Multi-Frequency Impedance-Sensing Device for Bacteria Classification in a Flowing Liquid

Sandro Carrara

This paper presents a novel impedance-sensing device and its related microfluidics system developed to characterize the macroscopical properties of bacteria and microparticles. The system is based on a phase-sensitive detector with square-waves excitation ...

IEEE2022

Printed Electronics Technologies for Additive Manufacturing of Hybrid Electronic Sensor Systems

Sandro Carrara, Johanna Zikulnig

Requirements for the miniaturization of electronics are constantly increasing as more and more functions are aimed to be integrated into a single device. At the same time, there are strong demands for low-cost manufacturing, environmental compatibility, ra ...

WILEY2023

A 69 µm2 Sub-nW/kHz Capacitor-less Ring Oscillator for Ultra-Miniaturized Implants

Sandro Carrara, Gian Luca Barbruni, Ali Meimandi

This paper presents an ultra-miniaturized, ultra-low-power, capacitor-less CMOS ring oscillator based on dynamic leakage suppression technique. Measurement results demonstrated an oscillation frequency of 21.89 kHz and a power consumption of 7.9 nW for a s ...

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