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Laser-based engineering (Lab-flo)

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Robert Eason

Other researchers

Dr Collin Sones

Principal Research Fellow

Professor Paul Elkington

Director of Inst. for Medical Innovation

Research interests

  • tuberculosis
  • immunopathology
  • diagnosis

Professor Tony Williams

Professor of Translational Medicine

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Laser-Direct-Write (LDW) Technologies for Biomedical Applications

We explore the use of lasers to create sensors that can be used by a patient’s bedside to test for an underlying disease or a health condition.

Research outputs

Laser-patterned paper-based sensors for rapid point-of-care detection and antibiotic-resistance testing of bacterial infections
Peijun J.W. He,
Ioannis N. Katis,
Anto J.U. Kumar,
Catherine A. Bryant,
Charles W. Keevil,
Bhaskar K. Somani,
Nitin Mahobia,
Robert W. Eason,
& Collin L. Sones
, 2020 , Biosensors & Bioelectronics , 152
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2020.112008
Type: article
Laser-direct-writing to enable filtration in paper-based devices
Panagiotis P. Galanis,
Peijun J.W. He,
Ioannis N. Katis,
Michael R. Thomas,
Yunlei Xianyu,
Molly M. Stevens,
Robert W. Eason,
& Collin L. Sones
, 2019
DOI: 10.1117/12.2508753
Type: conference
A rapid diagnostic test for human Visceral Leishmaniasis using novel Leishmania antigens in a laser direct-write lateral flow device
Maria Humbert,
Lourena Emanuele Costa,
Ioannis Katis,
Fernanda Fonseca Ramos,
Amanda Sanchez Machado,
Collin Sones,
Eduardo Antonio Ferraz Coelho,
& Myron Christodoulides
, 2019 , Emerging Microbes and Infections , 8 (1) , 1178--1185
DOI: 10.1080/22221751.2019.1635430
Type: article
Rapid multiplexed detection on lateral-flow devices using a laser direct-write technique
Peijun He,
Ioannis Katis,
Robert Eason,
& Collin L Sones
, 2018 , Biosensors
DOI: 10.3390/bios8040097
Type: article
Improved sensitivity and limit-of-detection of lateral flow devices using spatial constrictions of the flow-path
Ioannis Katis,
Peijun He,
Robert Eason,
& Collin Sones
, 2018 , Biosensors & Bioelectronics , 113 , 95--100
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2018.05.001
Type: article