The 226th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society (ECS), to be held in conjunction with the Sociedad Mexicana de Electroquímica (SMEQ) in Cancun, will be offering a special workshop on the micro and nanofabrication of chemical and biological sensors featuring Professor Peter Hesketh of the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.

This special workshop will cover micro/nanofabrication techniques for chemical and biosensors. Fabrication process techniques including physical vapor deposition, oxidation and diffusion in silicon, chemical vapor deposition, atomic layer deposition, plasma etching, and photo and electron beam lithography will be covered. Of special interest in the workshop is a section dealing with the medical uses of nanomaterials and devices including the preparation of nanoparticles for nanobiosensors and nanotheranostics along with the surface modifications of nanoparticles with biomolecules such as antibodies, enzymes, oligonucleotides, and other molecules. Characterization of the modified nanoparticles as well as evaluation of number of biomolecules bound to the surface will be reviewed. In addition to fabrication methods for micro and nano sensors, the application of such sensors in numerous fields, from aerospace, to biomedical and environmental chemical sensing will be covered. Case studies will be utilized in illustrating the important advantages of these miniature sensors.

In addition to Professor Hesketh, Garry W. Hunter, Ph.D., from the NASA Glenn Research Center and Zoraida P. Aguilar, Ph.D. and Director of Research and Development at Zystein, LLC, will be conducting the short course. The ECS 2014 meeting will also have numerous interdisciplinary oral presentations, poster sessions, and tutorials on electrochemical and solid-state science and technology. The 2014 ECS and SMEQ Joint International Meeting will be held at the Moon Palace Resort. For more information visit: http://electrochem.org/meetings/biannual/226/