Exploiting graphene's properties for sensing and monitoring applications

“卓越的电子性能，表面灵敏度和选择性，使石墨烯成为广泛潜在应用的理想候选者。然而，为了利用这些特性并实现这些应用，需要进行大量的工业研究，以克服阻碍石墨烯技术从实验室走向大规模制造的相当大的材料和工艺挑战。我们的工业研究项目将探索新的石墨烯表面化学改性工艺，转移方法和集成工艺，以在工业水平上转移和测试，实现食品制造中过敏原在线监测和护理点（POC）关键健康诊断的全新应用。石墨烯非凡的表面敏感性，再加上正确的表面改性技术，使其成为传感应用的理想材料。我们将通过先进的传感测试结构的计量学对优化工艺进行性能评估，用于检测i）食品中的牛奶过敏原和ii）心肌梗死（心脏病发作）和心血管疾病（CVD）生物标志物的快速检测。（在全球范围内增加，并促使食品生产者更加重视对食品加工厂的监测）：如果存在交叉污染的可能性，食品生产商就必须对产品贴上标签，并召回标签不正确的产品和“有问题“的批次-这给食品业造成了数百万美元的损失，并产生了负面的宣传;- 发病率（和死亡率）与心脏病发作相关，以及由CVD引起的国家卫生服务和全球人口负担的全球增加-快速反应排除潜在的心脏病发作，如果检测到，准实时了解疾病进展，将为临床医生，医院和急救单位提供强大的POC工具，有助于挽救生命和降低成本。我们基于石墨烯的技术的发展将最终使实时传感设备的制造成为可能，Aixtron的石墨烯生长设备是一种用于食品和食品加工单元以及POC关键健康诊断的原位监测技术，可以实现即时和低成本的监测。将质量控制措施与Aixtron的生长设备集成在一起，将为石墨烯技术从研究实验室到工厂的快速过渡提供一条途径。用于原位监测的集成石墨烯传感器的可用性将为最终用户联合利华提供牛奶过敏原污染物监测的真实的突破，并探索新的医疗技术应用。"

"Exceptional electronic properties, surface sensitivity and selectivity, makes graphene an ideal candidate for a wide number of potential applications. However, in order to exploit these properties and enable such applications, substantial industrial research is necessary to overcome considerable material and process challenges that prevent graphene technology to move from the laboratory to large-scale manufacturing.Our Industrial Research project will explore novel graphene surface chemical modification processes, transfer methods and integration processes to be transferred and tested at the industrial level, enabling entirely new applications for in-line monitoring of allergens in food manufacturing, and Point-of-Care (POC) critical health diagnostics. The extraordinary surface sensitivity of graphene, coupled with the correct technology to modify its surface, makes it an ideal material for sensing applications.Performance evaluation of our optimised processes will be conducted through metrology on advanced sensing test structure, for the detection of i) milk allergens in food products and ii) Myocardial Infarction (heart attack) and the rapid detection of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD\*) biomarkers.The needs for tackling these two exemplary applications stems from:- the prevalence of food allergies (increasing globally and prompting food producers to pay increased attention to monitoring of the food processing plant): where there is a possibility of cross-contamination, food producers are obliged to label products and recall incorrectly-labelled products and ""faulty"" batches-- costing industry millions and producing negative publicity;- The incidence (and mortality) associated with heart attack and the global increase in the burden of National Health Services and global population caused by CVD\* - a rapid response in ruling out a potential heart attack and, if detected, understanding the disease progression in quasi real-time, will provide a powerful POC tool to clinicians, hospitals, and emergency units, help saving lives and lower costs.The development of our graphene-based technology will allow to ultimately enable fabrication of real-time sensing devices, developed for _in-situ_ monitoring of food & food processing units and POC critical health diagnostics, would enable instant and low-cost monitoring.The availability of quality control measures to be integrated with Aixtron's growth equipment will enable a pathway to rapid transition of graphene technology from research lab to factory. The availability of integrated graphene-based sensors for in-situ monitoring would offer end-user Unilever a real breakthrough in monitoring for milk allergen contaminants and explore new medical technology applications."