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.

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News & Highlights

2020

• Dr Yang was interviewed by BBC to discuss testing  wastewater for early warning COVID-19 with paper device(18 min onward), and it was featured by [Science] [Daily Mail],[Newsweek][Science Daily], [Science Alert], [Yahoo News]

 

• Dr Yang wins Royal Academy of Engineering Frontier Follow-on Grant (£300k). Two PhD studentship available!!!

2019

• Dr Yang relocated to Cranfield University as Lecturer in Sensor Technology, heading a new state-of-the-art sensors lab at Water Science Institute. 

2018

• Dr Yang was appointed as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor, UK tenure) at James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow.

 

• Paper-origami device for diagnosis of STI was published in ACS Sensors, and featured by public media [UofG News], [MyScience], [Phys.org], [GaraviGujarat], [India.com], [Business Standard], [Businessworld India],[Outlook India].

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

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Selected Publications

Can a paper-based device trace COVID-19 sources with wastewater-based epidemiology?
Environ Sci Technol, 2020, 54 (7), 3733-3735.
featured by [Science] [Daily Mail] [Washington Post]

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

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

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

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

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

Community Sewage Sensors towards Evaluation of Drug Use Trends: Detection of Cocaine in Wastewater with DNA-Directed Immobilization Aptamer Sensors. 
Sci Rep, 2016 (6), 21024. 

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. 

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

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