摘要:
The present application relates to an electrode suitable for use in electrochemical sensing of a target species. The electrode comprises a peptide monolayer of defined length and to one end of which are attached both a redox active species and a receptor that is capable of binding to the target species. Also provided is an electrochemical method of sensing a target species, which involves the use of the electrode.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method (100) for detecting and measuring a layer deposited on a surface in contact with a liquid medium, able to discern the nature of the deposit, comprising the steps that consist of positioning at least one pair of electrodes (11) arranged at a mutual distance (D) on the surface in contact with a liquid medium; sending to the at least one pair of electrodes (11) a signal having signal frequency (f); and detecting the impedance (Z) between the at least one pair of electrodes (11) and it is characterised in that the signal frequency (f) is selected in such a way as to measure the resistive component of the impedance (z), the signal frequency (f) being greater than or equal to the zero frequency (f 0 ) given by the double layer capacitance (C DL ) and by the resistance (R SOL ) of the liquid medium in which the measurement takes place.
摘要:
A solution for evaluating a medium using electrical signals is described. A plurality of electrical signals having different frequencies are transmitted through the medium and signal data corresponding to the electrical signals after having traveled through the medium is acquired. A complex impedance and a complex permittivity and/or complex conductivity can be calculated for the medium. A set of characteristics of the medium can be computed using mixing models and/or known information of the medium. A level of one or more attributes of the medium can be determined from the characteristics using nonparametric Bayesian inference. One particular application is directed to determining a nitrate level of soil.
摘要:
Disclosed herein is a method for detecting a metastasis state of biological cells. The method includes seeding a plurality of biological cells onto an array of electrodes of an electrical cell- substrate impedance sensor (ECIS) by dropping a cell suspension including the plurality of biological cells in a cell culture medium onto the array of electrodes, forming a plurality of cultured biological cells attached onto the array of electrodes by maintaining the ECIS in an incubator, reducing pH value of an extracellular media around the plurality of cultured biological cells to a pH value between 6.2 and 6.7 by dropping an acidic solution onto the array of electrodes, activating an intracellular phenomenon due to reducing pH value of the extracellular media around the plurality of cultured biological cells, monitoring an electrical signal of the plurality of cultured biological cells for a pre-determined period of time, and determining metastasis state of the plurality of biological cells based on the monitored electrical signals.
摘要:
A sensing system for monitoring an industrial fluid is presented. The sensing system includes a housing and a sensor probe disposed at least partially in the housing, where the sensor probe includes a substrate, a sensing region disposed on the substrate, a first coil disposed on the substrate and coupled to the sensing region, and a second coil disposed on the substrate and coupled to the first coil. A method for operating the sensing system is also presented.
摘要:
An embodiment in accordance with the present invention is directed to a non-optical, label-free microfluidic biosensor utilizing an electrical liquid interface between two co-flowing liquids - one with a higher conductivity and one with a higher dielectric constant. The analyte-of-interest is in one solution while the receptor is in the adjacent stream. The electric interface acts as a substrate, when an alternating current electric field is applied perpendicularly across the interface, liquid displacement occurs which is frequency dependent. When a reaction occurs at the interface, it alters the electrical properties of the electrical interface, altering the frequency dependent liquid motion, which is then monitored by impedance spectroscopy downstream.
摘要:
Systems and methods to provide a low voltage interface coupleable between an energy storage device or a DC power source (e.g., fuel cell stack, battery) and one or more AC signal diagnostic systems. The low voltage interface reduces a voltage of the DC power source and supplies the reduced voltage to the one or more AC signal diagnostic systems without affecting the results of the measurements obtained by the one or more AC signal diagnostic systems. Such functionality provides a safer method for performing advanced analysis (e.g., EIS, frequency analysis) while utilizing lower cost and/or smaller components.
摘要:
There is provided A method for producing an electrical impedance tomographic image of an acoustic field within a fluid, comprising the steps of: a) positioning a plurality of electrodes within a fluid; b) applying an electrical signal to each electrode within a first subset of electrodes, wherein the electrical signal applied to each electrode has a different carrier frequency and/or phase; c) measuring the electrical potential at each electrode within a second subset of electrodes; and d) processing the measured data to provide an acoustic map of the acoustic field at the required acoustic frequencies. There is also provided a system for producing an electrical impedance tomographic image of an acoustic field within a fluid using the method of any preceding claim, comprising a plurality of electrodes, a signal generator adapted to perform step (b), a device adapted to perform step (c), and a processor adapted to perform step (d).
摘要:
Method for determining the state of an electrochemical device by means of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and equivalent circuit model (ECM) comprising the steps of measuring the system impedance by any EIS device, modelling the measured impedance by an ECM, identifying the ECM parameters through an automatic minimization algorithm, and processing the ECM parameters values to simulate the electrochemical impedance of the device. In particular, the identifications of the number of parameters (i.e. the ECM model components) and of suitable starting values of these parameters are automatically detected through a geometrical pre-analysis of the shape of the measured impedance spectrum Z', which geometrical pre-analysis will be also called in the following as Geometrical First Guess (GFG) algorithm.