Events
Liddiard Memorial Lecture: Prof Pankaj Vadgama on "Designer interfaces for biosensors and biomaterials"
| Date: | Thursday 10 May 2007 18:30 - 21:00 |
| Location: | Institute of Materials, 1 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5DB Map |
This is a free event open to all.
Synopsis:
Biosensors offer a unique technology for monitoring complex biomolecules in medicine and biology. Biomaterials are now an established and indeed indispensable route to clinical management particularly where conventional therapy has failed. Whilst the former constitutes a diagnostic capability and the other a therapeutic one, they have one key feature in common; both require to interface directly with a biological environment. This environment is neither static nor benign, in dealing with man-made intrusions, and has evolved considerably to coat, encapsulate and neutralise foreign bodies. The same process is triggered, irrespective of the
sophistication of the material.
This talk will describe some of the functional and materials elements that go to make up biosensors and how they are combined. Also, selected recent advances on surface modification
of biomaterials will be highlighted. However, the main focus of the presentation will be the ways in which surfaces and interfaces as presented by these systems require common modifications to enhance their operational lifetimes.
