UNIVERSITY: UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA (UKM)

CLUSTER: CHEMISTRY

NOVELTY OF PRODUCT :

The monitoring of the quality of food and environmental pollution or clinical analyses traditionally employed chemical methods performed in centralized laboratories. However, this can now be decentralized with the use of biosensors. Biosensors are portable devices that utilize that specificity of various biomolecules, e.g. enzymes, whole cells and DNA as recognition elements in the process of sensing the presence of some chemicals in a sample. The device is compact and includes a transducer that transforms the signal into quantitative information.

FEATURES OF PRODUCT :

• Generic – Many different types of biosensors can be produced from the same technology.
• Compatible with common manufacturing technology such as photolithography technology.
• Rapid manufacturing and production of biosensor devices.
• Flexibility in design and miniaturization.
• Possibility of mass production.
• Low cost of production.
• Acceptable analytical performance.

IMPACT OF THE PRODUCT :

• Improve environmental monitoring.
• Improve food quality control.
• Improve clinical analyses.
• Improve water toxicity evaluation.

TARGET MARKET :

• Ministry of Health – Monitoring of formaldehyde in seafood products all over Malaysia.
• Fish/seafood marketing & export agencies under Ministry of Agriculture.
• Fish and seafood products exporting/import companies.
• Department of Environment – Indoor air quality monitoring.
• Department of Occupational Health & Safety and Water Plant / Processing / Concessionaires.

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