Our research program focuses the development of new sensors and devices for Water-Environmnet-Health nexus. The projects underway involve aspects of diverse disciplines ranging from chemistry, biomedical, analytical and environmental science to nanotechnology.

News & Highlights

2020   ​
2019
2018  
2017
  • Zhugen was awarded a UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Independent Research Fellowship (£508k, fec), and he will start his independent research group from December 2017. PhDs, Project Students are very welcome!!! ​
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2013
  • Zhugen was awarded an EU Marie Curie Fellow on the development of community sewage sensors in Bath University after a postdoc in Cambridge

Selected Publications

Opportunities and Challenges for Biosensors and Nanoscale Analytical Tools for Pandemics: COVID-19
 ACS Nano, 2020, in press. (IF 14.6)

Can a paper-based device trace COVID-19 sources with wastewater-based epidemiology?
Environ Sci Technol, 2020, 54 (7), 3733-3735. (IF7.9)
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Nanomaterial-based Aptamer Sensors for Analysis of Illicit Drugs and Evaluation of Drugs Consumption for Wastewater-Based Epidemiology
Trend Anal Chem (TrAC), 2020, in press (IF 9.8)

Paper-based microfluidics for rapid diagnostics and drug delivery. 
J Control Release, 2020, 322, 187-199. (IF 7.7)

Nanomaterial-based aptamer sensors for arsenic detection. 
Biosens Bioelectron 2020, 148, 111785. (IF 10.3)
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Paper-based microfluidics for DNA diagnostics of malaria in low resource underserved rural communities.
PNAS 2019, 116 (11) 4834- 4842. (IF 9.3) 

Rapid veterinary diagnosis of bovine reproductive infectious diseases from semen using paper-origami DNA microfluidics. ​
ACS Sens, 2018, 3(2), 403-409. (IF 7.3)

Graphene nanocomposites modified electrochemical aptamer sensor for rapid and highly sensitive detection of prostate specific antigen.
Biosens Bioelectron 2018, 121, 41-46. (IF 10.3)

Monitoring Genetic Population Biomarkers with wastewater-based epidemiology. 
Anal Chem 2017, 89 (18), 9941–9945. (IF6.8) 

A novel DNA biosensor using a ferrocenyl intercalator applied to the potential detection of human population biomarkers in wastewater. 
Environ Sci Technol 2015, 49 (9),5609–5617. (IF7.9)

Community Sewage Sensors for Monitoring Public Health.  
​Environ Sci Technol 2015. 49 (10), 5845–5846. (IF7.9)