Development of Advanced Micro-Nano topological Platforms for Point-of-Care Diagnostics

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A review article has been submitted as one of the co-authors to the Nano Today journal titled 'Emerging Lithographic Techniques for Nanostructure Fabrication'.The review article covers the emerging techniques in micro-nano-fabrication techniques addressing their strengths and limitations. It focused mainly on the latest advances in the main emerging patterning methods.The emerging methods enable structural and chemical micro-nanofabrication while comparing these innovations to established lithographic techniques. The current project is towards a journal article as the primary author. This will include results obtained from simulation and experimental work on surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate to enable accurate detection of certain biomarkers present in patients suspected of having a traumatic brain injury. This is at the results-gathering stage both from experiments and simulations, whereby the results obtained will be analysed and discussed with potential co-authors.Another collaboration is in its initial (planning) stage, which will include some colleagues and a separate research group focusing on graphene biosensors. Graphene-coated substrates offer relatively cheaper alternatives to other metallic-coated substrates while producing a similar level of Raman signal enhancements for the detection of analytes which indicates the onset of certain diseases. They are interested in the current research work on SERS substrates involving surfaced-patterned substrates whereby the collaboration would involve coating produced structured substrates with graphene monolayer. Other aspects of the project would involve other research colleagues' work involving biosensors, to publish an article (and possibly patents) at the end of the project.