Hobart

Seminar Abstract

Friday 19 February 2010, 11.30am (Tas time)
CSIRO Auditorium, Hobart

Eric Bakker
Professor, Nanochemistry Research Institute
Faculty of Science & Engineering
School of Science
Curtin University of Technology
Western Australia

Ion-Selective Membranes for Electrochemical Detection

Polymeric membrane electrodes have been in use for many years, with a strong focus in clinical diagnostics where they are work horses for automated small ion detection via potentiometry. This talk will introduce their working principles and outline progress in going from their original liquid contact design to miniaturizable all solid state systems, and try to explain the reasons for why this can work in a robust fashion. The underlying membrane principles will be shown to be very promising for a range of novel and potentially much more powerful measurement principles that are especially attractive for environmental analysis.

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Huijun Zhao
Professor, Griffith School of Environment and
Environmental Futures Centre
Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University
Queensland

Chemical and Biological Sensors for Environmental Monitoring Applications

Development of field-based sensing techniques has been in high demand by end-users for sometimes. This presentation summarises the field-based chemical and biochemical sensing techniques developed at Griffith University over the past decade. This will include: membrane-based biosensors such as enzyme biosensors and inhibition biosensors; chemical sensors such as chemical oxygen demand sensors, biochemical oxygen demand sensors, nutrient sensors and diffusive gradients in thin-films techniques. Flyer

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Location:
CSIRO = Marine Laboratories Auditorium, Castray Esplanade, Hobart

For further information, or to schedule a seminar, contact:
To schedule a seminar, contact:
Clothilde Langlais, (Oceanographic seminars) CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (03) 6232 5399
Natalie Kelly, (Biology/Modelling seminars) CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research 0438 452 483
Jillian Enraght-Moony, (seminar administrator) CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (03) 6232 5320
Communications Manager, Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC (03) 6226 2265
Margaret Hazelwood, Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies (IASOS) University of Tasmania (03) 6226 2971

Last updated 11/05/10