Mobile and miniaturized materials analysis

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Miniaturized electronics and low cost wireless technology have dramatically influenced our lives in the past 50 years, enabling innovations such as the computer and ubiquitous telecommunications. Over the next few decades they will also enable another revolution in miniaturized and mobile materials analysis. Materials will no longed have to brought to laboratories for analysis. This grant will focus on electronic systems for miniaturized and mobile materials analysis, with particular emphasis on passive wireless systems and microwave frequency biomaterials analysis in microfluidics. Passive wireless sensors will be attached and implanted and allowing rapid onsite analysis. Miniaturized microwave frequency microfluidic biomaterial analysis systems will be rapidly deployable for portable diagnostics. These systems will have broad impact on society ranging from increased safety of civil infrastructure to personalized treatment of disease.