Analogue VLSI micronose

ENT infection e-nose

EU e-nose Gospel network

Nose-on-a-chip

Dynamic modelling of e-nose systems

Smart electronic tongues

Biosynthetic infochemical communication
By exploiting recent advances in the understanding of pheromone biosynthesis pathways and pheromone detection and decoding in the insect nervous system a new class of technology for infochemical communication is developed. The proposed infochemical communication system consists of a "chemoemitter" microsystem which is capable of generating a precise mix of predefined synthesised compounds and a complementray tuned detector of this volatile chemical mixture called a "chemoreceiver" which is able to recover the ratiometric information deployed in the environment. This innovative chemoemitter-receiver pair will be capable of information transmission using chemicals alone and will form the basis of a new technological field for labelling, information transmission and biochemical interfacing. We expect our approach and the technologies developed in this project to have long-term implications for automatic identification and data capture (AIDC), product labelling, search and rescue, data storage, unexploded ordinance and mine localisation, air silent communication, unmanned space exploration, medical diagnosis/treatment, therapeutic agents and environmental monitoring/control. For more information: visit Dr Marina Cole's and Dr Zoltán Rácz's personal home page.

SOI CMOS gas sensors
Adaptive dynamic gas sensor models
Biologically inspired neuromorphic models
CMOS resistive microbridge