Abstract:
Monitoring and dosing systems for dosing additives to water in aquatic environments, such as aquariums, swimming pools, hot tubs, and ponds, to maintain the quality of the water within tolerances and/or to control other aspect of the aquatic environment, such as controlling the growth rates of flora and/or fauna in the aquatic environment. Some monitoring systems disclosed include chemical indicator apparatuses submerged in the water and having multiple immobilized-dye-based chemical indicators for detecting the levels of multiple constituents of the water that contribute to water quality. Corresponding monitoring/measuring units include one or more optical readers for acquiring readings of the chemical indicators. Dosing can be performed automatedly and/or in an assisted manner via a dosing calculator and appropriate support systems. A variety of robustness features are also disclosed that can be used to assist the systems in ensuring that measurement readings are as accurate as possible to avoid improper dosing.
Abstract:
A sensing method, which comprises subjecting a holographic sensor to an external physical interaction to which the sensor is sensitive, and observing a change in the holographic image.
Abstract:
본 발명에서는 칼세인, 칼세인 아세톡시메틸 에스테르 (Calcein acetoxymethyl ester, Calcein-AM) 및 칼세인 블루(Calcein blue)로 구성된 군으로부터 선택되는 하나 이상의 수분민감성 화합물을 포함하는 수분검출 센서, 결함 검출 센서 및 그를 이용한 센서 어레이를 제공한다. 본 발명의 수분검출 및 결함검출 센서는 공존가스의 방해를 받지 않고 수분만을 정확하게 정량할 수 있는 선택성이 우수하고, 가역적이어서 계속적으로 재사용이 가능하여 소요 비용이 절감되고 수분의 농도 변화를 효과적으로 모니터링할 수 있어, 수분차단 특성 또는 수분투과 특성을 측정할 수 있다. 또한, 민감도가 우수하여 정밀한 검출이 가능하고, 응답속도가 매우 빠른 장점이 있다. 또한 결함을 통하여 수분이 쉽게 침투하고 형광 강도가 증가함으로 이를 이용하여 결함을 용이하게 모니터링할 수 있다.
Abstract:
A sensor which comprises a support medium and a hologram disposed therein, wherein an optical characteristic of the medium varies as a result of a change of a property of the medium, and wherein the medium is heterogeneous such that the change of property is heterogeneous.
Abstract:
Methods and devices for the measurement of molecular binding interactions. Preferred embodiments provide real-time measurements of kinetic binding and disassociation of molecules including binding and disassociation of protein molecules with other protein molecules and with other molecules.In preferred embodiments ligands are immobilized within pores of a porous silicon interaction region produced in a silicon substrate, after which analytes suspended in a fluid are flowed over the porous silicon region. Binding reactions occur when analyte molecules duffuse closely enough to the ligands to become bounds. Preferably the binding and subsequent disassociation reactions are observed utilizing a white light source and thin film interference techniques with spectrometers arranged to detect changes in indices of refraction in the region where the binding and disassociation reactions occur. In preferred embodiments both ligands and analytes are delivered by computer controlled robotic fluid flow control techniques to the porous silicon interaction regions through microfluidic flow channels.
Abstract:
A device for detecting a compound in a sample includes a substrate and a self-assembled monolayer. The substrate includes a support with a metallized top surface, and the self-assembled monolayer includes an alkanethiol attached to the metallized top surface of the substrate and having a functional group that reversibly or irreversibly interacts with the compound. A liquid crystal is disposed on the self-assembled monolayer opposite the side of the self-assembled monolayer attached to the metallized top surface of the substrate. The liquid crystal includes a moiety that interacts with the functional group of the alkanethiol. When the compound is present in a sample that that contacts the self-assembled monolayer, the orientation of the liquid crystal is altered.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to gas sensors, in particular, to an optical fibre sensor for measuring the presence and/or quantity of one of more gasses, the gas sensor comprising an optical fibre, and a gas sensitive detection material at a portion of the surface of the optical fibre, said gas sensitive detection material comprising a gas sensitive reactant and a porous matrix, wherein the gas sensitive detection material undergoes a reversible change of reflectance and/or absorbance at a detection wavelength when subjected to a gas to be detected.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a liquid crystal device for detecting interactions between a surface and an analyte. Specifically it provides a device for detecting interactions between a surface and an analyte, said device comprising a first substrate having an active surface supporting one or more first analyte(s), a second substrate, and a liquid crystal disposed on the active surface between the first substrate and second substrate, wherein the liquid crystal has a cross-section of varying thickness, wherein the cross-section of the liquid crystal has a first thickness and second thickness that is different to the first thickness, whereby the interaction between the active surface and the first analyte causes the orientation of the liquid crystal to change at a first critical thickness that is between the first and second thicknesses of the liquid crystal.
Abstract:
A sensor for the detection of an analyte, comprises a medium and, disposed therein, a hologram, wherein an optical characteristic of the medium changes as a result of a variation of a physical property of the medium, wherein the medium comprises a first polymer interpenetrated by a second, different polymer, and wherein the hologram is recorded in the first polymer and said variation arises as a result of interaction between the second polymer and the analyte.
Abstract:
Methods and devices for the measurement of molecular binding interactions. Preferred embodiments provide real-time measurements of kinetic binding and disassociation of molecules including binding and disassociation of protein molecules with other protein molecules and with other molecules.In preferred embodiments ligands are immobilized within pores of a porous silicon interaction region produced in a silicon substrate, after which analytes suspended in a fluid are flowed over the porous silicon region. Binding reactions occur when analyte molecules duffuse closely enough to the ligands to become bounds. Preferably the binding and subsequent disassociation reactions are observed utilizing a white light source and thin film interference techniques with spectrometers arranged to detect changes in indices of refraction in the region where the binding and disassociation reactions occur. In preferred embodiments both ligands and analytes are delivered by computer controlled robotic fluid flow control techniques to the porous silicon interaction regions through microfluidic flow channels.