Browsing by Author "Turner, Anthony P. F."

Browsing by Author "Turner, Anthony P. F."

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  • The hydraulic lung 
    Prime, David (2004-10)
    A Hydraulic Lung has been designed and constructed. The Hydraulic Lung can inhale through a Dry Powder Inhaler (DPI) with a pre-determined level of inspiratory effort, and the characteristics of the inhalation profile ...
  • Immunosensor for okadaic acid using quartz crystal microbalance 
    Tang, Alice X. J.; Pravda, Miloslav; Guilbault, George G.; Piletsky, Sergey A.; Turner, Anthony P. F. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2002-10-23)
    An immunosensor for the determination of okadaic acid (OA) using a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) was developed and optimised in standard solutions. Several coupling techniques, protein A, protein G and polyethylenimine ...
  • Improved procedures for immobilisation of oligonucleotides on gold-coated piezoelectric quartz crystals 
    Tombelli, S.; Mascini, Marco; Turner, Anthony P. F. (Elsevier, 2002-12)
    The high sensitivity and specificity of DNA hybridisation techniques makes them powerful tools for environmental or clinical analysis. This work describes the development of a DNA piezoelectric biosensor for the detection ...
  • Improvements in electrochemical glucose biosensors 
    Fragkou, Vasiliki (Cranfield University, 2010-09)
    Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the world. Even though insulin was discovered in 1920, an intense research on diabetes has been conducted during the last five decades and this is because ...
  • Influence of continuous magnetic field on the performance of molecularly imprinted polymers 
    Guerreiro, Antonio R.; Korkhov, Vadim; Mijangos, Irene; Piletska, Elena V.; Rodins, Juris; Turner, Anthony P. F.; Piletsky, Sergey A. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2008-02-28)
    A set of polymers was imprinted with (−)-ephedrine using UV initiation, under the influence of a constant external magnetic field with intensities ranging from 0 to 1.55 T. Synthesised materials were characterised by ...
  • Influence of initiator and different polymerisation conditions on performance of molecularly imprinted polymers 
    Mijangos, Irene; Navarro-Villoslada, Fernando; Guerreiro, Antonio R.; Piletska, Elena V.; Chianella, Iva; Karim, Kal; Turner, Anthony P. F.; Piletsky, Sergey A. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2006-09-15)
    A set of polymers was imprinted with (−)-ephedrine using two different initiators. A chemometrics approach was used to optimise experiments aimed at analysis of the interplay of parameters such as polymerisation time, ...
  • Integrated printed microfluidic biosensors 
    Loo, Jacky F. C.; Ho, Aaron Ho Pui; Turner, Anthony P. F.; Mak, Wing Cheung (Elsevier, 2020-04-13)
    Integrated printed microfluidic biosensors are one of the most recent point-of-care (POC) sensor developments. Fast turnaround time for production and ease of customization, enabled by the integration of recognition elements ...
  • A label free electrochemical nanobiosensor study 
    Zhang, Juankun; Dong, Shanmu; Lu, Jinhui; Turner, Anthony P. F.; Fan, Qingjie; Jia, Shiru; Yang, Hongjiang; Qiao, Changsheng; Zhou, Hao; He, Guowei (Taylor & Francis, 2009-01)
    Nano-porous silicon (PS) is an attractive material for incorporation into biosensors, because it has a large surface area combined with the ability to generate both optical and electrical signals. In this paper, we describe ...
  • Lanthanide [terbium(III)]-doped molecularly imprinted nanoarchitectures for the fluorimetric detection of melatonin 
    Özgür, Erdoğan; Patra, Hirak K.; Turner, Anthony P. F.; Denizli, Adil; Uzun, Lokman (American Chemical Society, 2020-08-07)
    Polymerizable terbium(III) complex-based fluorescent molecular imprinted smart nanoparticles were synthesized for the quantitative determination of potential metabolic destitution biomarkers. Melatonin has been reported ...
  • Laser ice scaffolds modeling for tissue engineering 
    Meglinski, I. V.; Varejka, M.; Woodman, Anthony C.; Turner, Anthony P. F.; Piletsky, Sergey A. (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2005-09-01)
    Tissue engineering is one of the most exciting and rapidly growing areas in biomedical engineering that offers vast potential for changing traditional approaches to meeting many pharmaceutics and critical health care ...
  • Methanol dehydrogenase biofuel cells and enzyme-based electrodes 
    Aston, W. J. (Cranfield UniversitySchool of Applied Sciences, 1984-12)
    This thesis describes the linking of enzymes to electrodes and their application in biofuel cells and as analytical devices. Methanol dehydrogenase, an NAD independent enzyme was purified by two phase aqueous partition. ...
  • Modulating Electrode Kinetics for Discrimination of Dopamine by a PEDOT:COOH Interface Doped with Negatively Charged Tricarboxylate 
    Meng, Lingyin; Turner, Anthony P. F.; Mak, Wing Cheung (American Chemical Society, 2019-08-26)
    The rapidly developing field of conducting polymers in organic electronics has many implications for bioelectronics. For biosensing applications, tailoring the functionalities of the conducting polymer’s surface is an ...
  • Nano-Porous Light-Emitting Silicon Chip as a Potential Biosensor Platform 
    Zhang, Juankun; Zhang, Weiliang; Dong, Shanmu; Turner, Anthony P. F.; Fan, Qingjie; Jia, Shiru (Taylor and Francis, 2008-01)
    Nano-porous silicon (PS) offers a potential platform for biosensors with benefits both in terms of light emission and the large functional surface area. A light emitting PS chip with a stable and functional surface was ...
  • New micro-and nano-technologies for biosensor development 
    Berti, Francesca (Cranfield University, 2009)
    Recent advances in micro- and nanotechnology have produced a number of new materials which exhibit exceptional potential for the design of novel sensing strategies and to enhance the analytical performance of biosensing ...
  • New reactive polymer for protein immobilisation on sensor surfaces 
    Kyprianou, Dimitris; Guerreiro, Antonio R.; Chianella, Iva; Piletska, Elena V.; Fowler, Steven A.; Karim, Kal; Whitcombe, Michael J.; Turner, Anthony P. F.; Piletsky, Sergey A. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2009-01-01)
    Immobilisation of biorecognition elements on transducer surfaces is a key step in the development of biosensors. The immobilisation needs to be fast, cheap and most importantly should not affect the biorecognition activity ...
  • A new reactive polymer suitable for covalent immobilisation and monitoring of primary amines 
    Piletska, Elena V.; Piletsky, Sergey A.; Subrahmanyam, S.; Turner, Anthony P. F. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2001-04-01)
    A new polymer able to react with primary amines was synthesised from allyl mercaptan, o-phtalic dialdehyde and ethylene glycol dimethacrylate by radical polymerisation. Reactive thioacetale formed by allyl mercaptan and ...
  • A novel enzyme entrapment in SU-8 microfabricated films for glucose micro-biosensors 
    Psoma, Sotiria D.; van der Wal, Peter D.; Frey, Olivier; de Rooij, Nicolaas F.; Turner, Anthony P. F. (Elsevier, 2010-12-15)
    The present work investigates the utilisation of the widely used SU-8 photoresist as an immobilisation matrix for glucose oxidase (GOx) for the development of glucose micro-biosensors. The strong advantage of the proposed ...
  • A novel optical chip for affinity biosensors based on fluorescence anisotropy 
    Carloni, Adolfo (Cranfield University, 2008-07)
    The subject of this thesis relates to the realisation of a novel biochip for sensors based on optical principles. In particular, affinity biosensors for antigens (IgG/anti-IgG), for a transcription factor, and for mRNA ...
  • A novel optical biosensor format for the detection of clinically relevant TP53 mutations 
    Wilson, P. K.; Jiang, T.; Minunni, Maria E.; Turner, Anthony P. F.; Mascini, Marco (Elsevier, 2005-05-15)
    The TP53 gene has been the subject of intense research since the realisation that inactivation of this gene is common to most cancer types. Numerous publications have linked TP53 mutations in general or at specific locations ...
  • Patterned gallium surfaces as molecular mirrors 
    Bossi, Alessandra; Rivetti, Claudio; Mangiarotti, Laura; Whitcombe, Michael J.; Turner, Anthony P. F.; Piletsky, Sergey A. (Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2007-09-30)
    An entirely new means of printing molecular information on a planar film, involving casting nanoscale impressions of the template protein molecules in molten gallium, is presented here for the first time. The metallic ...