Registration is now available for the 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, to be held during the 226th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) in Cancun, Mexico, October 5th – 7th, 2014.

This 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 interdisciplinary oral presentations, poster sessions, and tutorials on electrochemical and solid-state science and technology. Highlights from the numerous Georgia Institute of Technology presentations at the conference include:

Improving Thermo-Electrochemical Cells Using Carbon Nanotubes
Baratunde A. Cola, Assistant Professor - Heat Transfer, Combustion and Energy Systems
Monday, October 6th, 11:00 am, Session: Electrochemical Energy Harvesting

Fabrication, Characterization, and Modeling of Field-Effect-Transistor Nanoribbon Biosensors
Eric M. Vogel, Professor - MOS Devices and Materials and Nanoelectronic Devices
Monday, October 6th, 2:10 pm, Session: MEMS NEMS Sensors

Invited: Bipolar Membrane Fuel Cells Using Anion Conductive Multiblock Copolymers
P. A. Kohl, Regents' Professor, Institute Fellow, Hercules, Inc./Gossage Chair, and Director of Semiconductor Research Corporation's Interconnect and Packaging Center at Georgia Tech
Monday, October 6th , 2:20 pm, Session: Plenary Session - PEFC-14

Nanoengineering Pure Polymers with High Thermal Conductivity
Baratunde A. Cola, Assistant Professor - Heat Transfer, Combustion and Energy Systems
Monday, October 6th, 3:10 pm, Session: Thermoelectric Materials II

(Outstanding Achievement Award of the Sensor Division) From Antibody to X-ray 25 Years in MEMS Sensors
Peter Hesketh, Professor- Micro and Nano Engineering
Tuesday, October 7th, 2:00 pm, Session: Sensor Division Outstanding Achievement Award

For a full listing of conference abstracts, visit the online program at this link.

The 2014 ECS and SMEQ Joint International Meeting will be held at the Moon Palace Resort. For more information or to register for the conference visit the ECS Cancun Website.