Electrochemical sensors
Electrochemical sensors using Canatu carbon nanotubes offer a versatile, proven, and scalable material platform with industry-leading sensitivity.
Electrochemical sensors create new opportunities in diverse industries
Canatu® creates advanced carbon nanotubes, offering a versatile material platform for electrochemical sensors renowned for their industry-leading sensitivity. Canatu CNTs feature a unique combination of properties, including a large surface area and low background current, enhancing sensing capabilities and unlocking new opportunities for electrochemical sensor applications across diverse industries.
With a proven track record in mass production for automotive and semiconductor industries, Canatu now develops the market’s most sensitive electrochemical sensors. Utilizing Canatu’s unique dry deposition CNT film manufacturing process, validated at an industrial scale with the capacity to produce film for tens of millions of sensors annually, these Canatu CNT-based electrochemical sensors promise highly sensitive, quantitative, accurate, reliable, and cost-effective analyses. Their applications span medical diagnostics, veterinary care, environmental monitoring, industrial applications, food & beverages, and more.
Electrochemical sensors based on Canatu CNTs offer:
- Sensitivity: Strong signal and low detection limit thanks to high conductivity, large surface area, and increased contact area with the analyte.
- Versatility: ability to quantitatively detect various substances from ultra-low concentrations of fluidic samples
- Scalability: unique dry deposition roll-to-roll manufacturing process, validated at an industrial scale with the capacity for millions of sensors annually
Electrochemical sensors outclass established and emerging methods
Electrochemical sensors using Canatu CNT surpass both established and emerging solutions with superior quantitative detection, rapid results, low cost, ease of use, and high sensitivity. This transformative technology has the potential to redefine quantitative analyses in various industries.
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Electrochemical sensors offer unprecedented opportunities
Electrochemical sensors based on Canatu CNTs offer new opportunities for diverse applications in various industries. With their exceptional sensitivity, these advanced electrochemical sensors can detect a wide range of substances at ultra-low concentrations. This makes electrochemical sensors invaluable for real-time monitoring of critical parameters in fields such as medical diagnostics, veterinary care, environmental monitoring, food & beverages, and industrial processes.
Canatu is currently validating the feasibility of Canatu CNT-based electrochemical sensors for various use cases. These include, but are not limited to, applications such as electrochemical biosensors for therapeutic drug monitoring (Paracetamol, Tacrolimus), hormones (Testosterone, Dopamine, Serotonin), Drugs of Abuse (Fentanyl, Oxycodone, Morphine), antibiotics (Vancomycin), and bacteria / virus detection (E.Coli). Other promising applications for electrochemical sensors beyond medical diagnostics include veterinary care, such as detecting Mastitis udder infusion in cows, and environmental water quality monitoring, among others.
Electrochemical biosensors
Electrochemical biosensors bring the lab-level analysis anywhere. Point-of-care electrochemical detection is on the rise, enabling rapid on-site detection of various biomarkers. These electrochemical biosensors hold great promise in transforming medical diagnostics, offering accurate and timely results, while making low-cost, easy-to-use, and accessible diagnostics possible.
Electrochemical sensors based on Canatu CNT
Electrochemical detection enables rapid, selective, and quantitative chemical measurement. This method can utilize biorecognition elements, such as antibodies and enzymes, to modify electrodes for specific analyte. Biorecognition element interacts with the specific target analyte. Electrical signals are generated, and these signals are processed by an electronic system.
Carbon nanotubes are the most exciting materials used in electrochemical sensors due to their large surface area and superior electrochemical properties. In electrochemical sensors, this large surface area provides many binding sites, enhancing the capability to detect specific chemical analytes. Additionally, the unique structure of carbon nanomaterials offers distinct advantages. Unlike materials like gold and platinum, the carbon structure allows for a sturdy and reliable attachment of biorecognition elements, enabling effective functionalization across a broad range of applications.
Canatu CNT offers a versatile and proven material platform for electrochemical sensors, with the industry’s highest sensitivity.
Canatu carbon nanotubes offer a versatile material platform for electrochemical sensors with the industry’s highest sensitivity. Canatu uses a unique dry deposition method which yields high-purity CNTs, enabling a large contact with the analyte. The exceptional purity of Canatu CNT further facilitates the fabrication of electrochemical sensors with high sensitivity and stable low background currents, contributing to a high signal-to-noise ratio. Both the dry deposition and electrode patterning processes are fully compatible with roll-to-roll production and have been successfully demonstrated at an industrial scale.
Canatu’s dry deposition method yielding high-purity CNTs is fully compatible with roll-to-roll production, and successfully demonstrated at an industrial scale with capacity to produce millions of electrochemical sensors annually.
Additionally, Canatu has highly developed expertise in customizing CNTs for application-specific needs. Both, the individual CNTs and the overall CNT network morphology can be tuned. For example, bundle size can be adjusted during CNT synthesis to optimize click chemistry, and carbon nanotubes can be purified to remove residual iron from the CNT synthesis. Our extensive in-house post-processing capabilities also extend to surface functionalization, enabling selectivity through immobilization of biorecognition elements.
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