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Nanodetector
European Network on the Health and
Environmental Impact of Nanomaterials
NanoSafetyCluster - Compendium 2012
Contract Agreement: in negotiation Website: http://www.nanodetector.eu.eu
Coordinator: Vladimir Mirsky, Lausitz University of Applied Sciences, Senftenberg, Germany
No. Beneficiary name Short name Country
1 Lausitz University of Applied Sciences - Hochschule Lausitz LUAS Germany
(2) Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften – ISAS- e. V. ISAS Germany
3 Imperial College London ICL UK
4 Fraunhofer-Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT Germany
5 Hybrid Integrated Technologies (HIT) Ltd. HIT Czech. Rep.
6 Phasis PHASIS Switzerland
7 Mivitec GmbH MIVITEC Germany
8 Optolita OPTOLITA Lithuania
9 Upperton Ltd UPPERTON UK
10 MBN Nanomaterialia S.p.A. MBN Italy
Contents
1 Summary ..................................................................................... 79
2 Background ................................................................................ 79
2.1. Plasmonic detection of single nanoparticles ......................... 79
2.2 Quantification of nanoparticles .............................................. 80
2.3 Identification of nanoparticles ................................................ 81
1 Summary
Project Duration: 1 May 2012 – 31 September 2015
Project Funding: 2.968 Mio. EUR
The project is based on the new experimental phenomenon
discovered recently by a project partner: single subwavelengthsize
objects give rise to optical signals in surface plasmon
resonance microscopy. This provides a unique possibility for
ultrasensitive on-line detection of engineered nanoparticles.
Within the project a development of the device for detection of
nanoparticles and its application for a number of practically
important tasks will be performed. The work includesthe
development of theoretical description of the new effect,
optimization of main components of plasmonic microscope,
development of sophisticated software for effective image
analyses and isolation of nanoparticle signals from background
optical signals and noise.
Preliminary experiments demonstrated a possibility to use surface
modification to distinguish different types of nanoparticles. This
approach will be used in the project to identify of nanoparticles
3 Objectives of the project............................................................. 81
4 Workplan .................................................................................... 82
5 Directory ..................................................................................... 83
6 Copyright .................................................................................... 83
and to achieve this, an array with different receptor groups will be
formed, and pattern recognition algorithms will be applied.
Measurements will be performed in aqueous media as well as in
air. Inorganic, plastic and protein nanoparticles will be examined.
At the final step of the project monitoring of nanoparticles in
simple and complicated probes as well as for monitoring of
workplaces and waste during production of inorganic and protein
nanoparticles and during aging of nanostructured materials will be
performed.
2 Background
2.1. Plasmonic detection of single nanoparticles
A recent experimental discovery made by a project partner forms
the basis for the novel approach to nanoparticle diagnostics
proposed here. The proposed detector relies on exploiting an until
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