Department für Nanobiotechnologie (DNBT)

Within a master thesis at the AIT, our student Ms. Bernadette Lechner and colleagues developed a novel way of following the amplification of DNA from a surface. The unique way light is trapped at the interface of gold films and can propagate in polymer films close to the surface was used for the breakthrough. Such sensors could find applications, e.g., in multiplexed virus detection and other pathogen detection. This proof-of-concept was published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.

After a long wait during the pandemic, it is finally time to expand the institute again. Mr. Chizzola and Ms. Sathish have recently joined us to perform their Ph.D. thesis work within the Marie-Sklodowska Curie International Training Network STIMULUS. They will also be the first BIMat members of the BioMatInt doctoral school.