Project from the grant call of the Operational Program Jan Amos Komenský (OP JAK) - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MŠMT) - Priority 1 - Research and Development - - CZ.02.01.01/00/22_008/0004596 - 01/2024 - 06/2028

Collaboration:

Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences

J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Masaryk University

New Technologies - Research Center - NTC West Bohemia University in Pilsen

Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Palacký University Olomouc

University of Chemistry and Technology Prague

Czech Technical University in Prague

About the project:

The core of the SenDISo program is the development of a new generation of detectors and chemical-biosensor solutions. Interdisciplinary research will focus on creating technologies for environmental monitoring (portable sensors for volatile organic compounds to monitor pollution), improving medical diagnostics (discovery and analysis of trace amounts of biomarkers to combat serious diseases), and radiotherapy and quality control in industry. New tools will enable sensitivity at the level of individual (bio)molecules, opening the door to discoveries in the field of life sciences and early diagnosis of serious diseases such as cancer. Research is divided into five interconnected research objectives, which deal with the development of advanced methods of plasma deposition for the preparation of semiconductor and metal thin films and micro/nanostructures with tailored electronic and optical properties, preparation of polymer architectures with controlled nanomechanical and physico-chemical properties enabling the connection of monitored technical devices with biological systems and faithfully mimicking the properties of biological environments. The results of these activities will serve for subsequent development of a new class of detectors, chemosensors, and biosensors.

The project is led by experts from the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences in the field of chemosensors, optical materials, thin film deposition techniques, advanced laser technologies, and biosensors. The project also includes partners dealing with new areas in nanophotonics (Institute of Photonics and Electronics of the Czech Academy of Sciences), quantum optics and optical technologies (Palacký University Olomouc), biochemistry and bioanalytical research (Masaryk University), gas sensors (University of Chemistry and Technology Prague), Institute of Physics of Materials of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Czech Technical University in Prague), and 2D materials for sensors and detectors (J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences). (Bio)material research is under the responsibility of researchers from the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen.