Sensors
DCU is home to the National Centre for Sensor Research (NCSR), a World renowned, large-scale, multi-disciplinary research facility. The NCSR focuses on the science and applications of chemical sensors and biosensors in a wide range of applications such as environmental sensing, industrial sensing & healthcare diagnostics. Research areas include:
Environmental Technologies
- Development of new platforms, materials and detection systems that will provide enhanced functionality for environmental monitoring systems
- Provision of flexible access to the information generated from these systems in real life deployments
- Development of self sustaining autonomous sensor networks that can be embedded and dispersed in the environment
Nanomedicine
- Nanotechnology based ultrasensitive diagnostics
- Targeted drug delivery and release
- Sub-wavelength resolution fluorescence imaging
Fundamental Materials Science
- Smart, multifunctional materials whose properties can be chemically, electrochemically or optically switched
- Microfluidics
- Molecular deposition and immobilisation
- Low power approaches to liquid transport on surfaces or within microchannels
- Materials for energy scavenging and storage leading to self sufficient platforms
- Nanostructures and nanomaterials such as conducting polymers