International Research Fellows Awards Program: Production of a Microfabricated Chemical Analysis Platform for Field- Portable Environmental Monitoring

9600236罗伯茨国际研究员奖计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行三到二十四个月的研究。该项目的奖项提供了联合研究的机会，并提供了使用国外独特或互补的设施、专业知识和实验条件的机会。该奖项将支持为期12个月的博士后访问，以支持马修·A·罗伯茨博士与休伯特·吉罗博士在瑞士洛桑联邦理工学院合作。本项目的目标是1)制造一种具有交指阵列(IDA)电化学(EC)检测单元的微型制造的液体处理装置，以及2)在所提议的微型制造的液体处理装置中利用IDA用于免疫分析的EC检测。这种微型化学分析系统设备的生产将能够以一种真正的现场便携方式监测环境污染物。预计分析时间不到五分钟，可用于快速分析优先污染物和快速绘制补救地点的污染物迁移率图。由于这些优势，这项技术将有助于降低与国家超级基金计划相关的地点的表征和整体补救成本。***

9600236 Roberts The International Research Fellow Awards Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twentyfour months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad. This award will support a twelve-month postdoctoral research visit which will support Dr. Matthew A. Roberts to work with Dr. Hubert Girault at the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne in Switzerland. The objective of this project is to 1) produce a microfabricated liquid handling device with an interdigitated array (IDA) electrochemical (EC) detection cell and 2) to utilize IDAs for EC detection of immunoassays within the proposed microfabricated liquid handling device. The production of this miniaturized chemical analysis system device will be able to monitor environmental pollutants in a truly field-portable fashion. Analysis times of less than five minutes are expected which could be used for the rapid analysis of priority pollutants and quick mapping of contaminant mobility at remediation sites. This technology will help reduce characterization and overall remediation costs at sites associated with national Superfund programs due to these advantages. ***