Acronym TOXINSENS
Category
Marine Biotechnology
Title Screen-Printed Hybrid Electrodes for Detecting and Monitoring Lipopolysaccharides Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Catalin Zaharia Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
ICECHIM - National Institute for Research & Development in Chemistry and Petrochemistry (Romania)
Institutions involved
NA - EPI-SISTEM Srl (Romania) ,
NA - University Politehnica of Bucharest (Romania) ,
Start year 2020 End year 2022 Funding (€) € 134,461 Website https://icechim.ro/project/toxisens-en/ Summary The project TOXINSENS refers to designing innovative, versatile and re-usable biosensors for the fast, qualitative and quantitative detection and monitoring of lipopolysaccharides (LPS- endotoxin derived from Gram-negative bacteria, GNB) in various biological, food or water samples. For this matter, a medium consortium was created taking into account the project interdisciplinary and complexity, which includes the Project Coordinator ICECHIM that owns the background of the Concept approached in this project proposal, a Partner with state-of-the art facilities for characterisation i.e. UPB and a SME Partner-EPI SISTEM SRL capable of testing the project prototypes, adsorbing the know-how of manufacturing and commercialise the resulted LPS-biosensors. The project on-set refers to the following bioinspired concept: Methodology for the preparation of LPS-sensitive films-TRL 2. The concept was originally proposed by the Project Leader and developed within the Advanced Polymer Materials & Polymer Recycling Group from ICECHIM on project TE123/2018 BACTERIOSENS. Starting from this point, TOXINSENS targets first the upgrade of this former concept by addition of electro-active nanoparticles to the precursor films solution. In this way, an electro-active hybrid paste will be generated and used to print LPS-hybrid films directly on blank ceramic electrodes (TRL 3). The prepared LPS-Screen-printed hybrid electrodes will be further tested in laboratory-relevant environments and the innovative technologies will be thus validated (TRL 4). The specific output of the project will lead to several outcomes during project implementation (short-term scenario: at least 3 publications, 3 communications at prestigious Symposia or Congresses and 1 patent claim), and also after project end (long-term scenario: research and development roadmaps, performance data, transferable knowledge).
Keywords
Biosensors;
Food safety;
Toxins;
Prototype;
Bacteria;
Monitoring;
Technology;
Marine Region
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