Our research focuses on integrated biomicrosystems using thin-film silicon MEMS, microfluidic biosensors, microreactors, and cell chips. These platforms cater to various applications such as microorganism detection, plant health monitoring, food safety, biomedical research, and biotech process screening.
Our current research emphasis is on thin-film silicon MEMS, microfluidic biosensors, microreactors and cell chips. The aim is to develop microfluidic modules for integrated biomicrosystems. These platforms, which can be applied in microorganism detection, plant stress and disease monitoring, food safety and biomedical research, and biotech process screening, include high levels of sensor and actuator integration with easy user interfaces and fit for purpose performance.
Microfluidic biosensors for small molecules, proteins, and nucleic acids
Cell chips and micro bioreactors
Scientific
Areas
Integrated microfluidic biosensing for health, environment, veterinary, agriculture and food applications.
Capillary chips for point-of-care biosensing applications.
New materials and concepts for microfluidic biosensing.
Cell biochips for biomedical research and for biotech microreactors.
Thin film semiconductor electronic and micromechanical (MEMS) devices.
Optical sensors and sensor integration.
Technical
Expertise
Thin-film CVD deposition of semiconductors and dielectrics.
Microfabrication and characterization of thin-film silicon photodetectors.
Microfabrication and characterization of thin-film silicon MEMS.
Integrated absorption and interference optical filters.
Microfluidic devices for biosensing, bioprocessing and cell-chips.
Microbead-based microfluidics.
Sensor integration in microfluidics.
Projects & Collaborations
Established collaborations for the biochip monitoring of biotic and abiotic stresses in agricultural plants (BioISI, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon); for the development of cell chips for biomedical applications (iMED, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon); for the development of integrated microfluidic bioprocessing (BERG, iBB, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon); and for sample preparation in microfluidic biosensing (Ciceco, University of Aveiro).
