Electrochemical Nanoengineered Sensors in Infectious Disease Diagnosis

This chapter reports a short review on electrochemical nanoengineered biosensors in infectious disease diagnosis. Early and timely diagnosis of infectious diseases has tremendous medical and social significance which advocates the development of new diagnostic tools. In this chapter, we discussed various electrochemical sensors for detection and diagnosis of tropical or subtropical fevers particularly dengue fever and malaria parasite. We also addressed the several important aspects of biosensors, namely, selectivity, sensitivity, and interference, and also the effect of engineering the nanomaterials (0D, 1D, 2D) on these aspects. In detail, we discussed the various techniques to immobilize the biomolecules on working electrode (glassy carbon, gold electrode, flexible substrates). Further, we discussed the several miniaturized sensing platforms with integrated microfluidic channels which can ensure for development of sensors for point-of-care applications

Overview of the KoRIA Facility for Rare Isotope Beams

The Korea Rare Isotope Accelerator, currently referred to as KoRIA, is briefly presented. The KoRIA facility is aimed to enable cutting-edge sciences in a wide range of fields. It consists of a 70 kW isotope separator on-line (ISOL) facility driven by a 70 MeV, 1 mA proton cyclotron and a 400 kW in-flight fragmentation (IFF) facility. The ISOL facility uses a superconducting (SC) linac for post-acceleration of rare isotopes up to about 18 MeV/u, while the SC linac of IFF facility is capable of accelerating uranium beams up to 200 MeV/u, 8 p mu A and proton beams up to 600 MeV, 660 mu A. Overall features of the KoRIA facility are presented with a focus on the accelerator design.close5