Ultra-High Sensitivity Biosensors For Maple Syrup Industrial Process

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Producing Maple syrup is based on a process which is in ongoing progress in order to optimize maple syrup production by achieving a very accurate control of sugar concentration in consumable maple syrup. Having an extremely accurate and real time sugar sensor during the fabrication process of maple syrup is extremely critical in order to monitor sugar concentration from sap to final maple syrup. In this food industry, Canada is the largest world producer of maple syrup. Thus, having such a sugar sensor and monitoring system has a huge financial impact on Canadian producers and consequently a significant impact on our Canadian maple industry. Nowadays, industrial and reliable devices to measure sugar concentration during maple syrup fabrication are mainly based on refractometry. However, accurate refractometers are very expensive which makes them not affordable to several producers. Thus in this proposal we aim to develop a new ultra-high sensitivity sugar sensor for maple syrup industry in order to improve the production of maple syrup when it is transformed from sap to industrial syrup.