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DESCRIPTION:IMSE Doctoral Candidate Prashant Gupta will defend his disserta
 tion “Functional Nanomaterials for Artificial and\nBio-hybrid Olfactory 
 Sensors”\n\nUltrasensitive\, reliable\, and rapid chemical vapor sensing
  is of paramount importance for a wide variety of applications including b
 io-diagnostics\, homeland security and environmental monitoring. Despite d
 ecades of extensive efforts\, the performance of artificial chemical sensi
 ng systems (‘e-noses’) still pales compared to the superior capabiliti
 es of their biological counterparts. On several important metrics such as 
 sensitivity\, stability\, specificity\, and tolerance to varying backgroun
 d conditions biological olfactory systems exhibit better performance. On t
 he other hand\, chemical sensing approaches that tap into biological capab
 ilities present different sets of challenges\, such as confounding behavio
 ral response or sub-optimal neural response\, that must be overcome to rea
 lize a viable bio-hybrid chemical sensing solution. These challenges const
 itute the motivation of this dissertation work. We aim to overcome several
  incessant bottlenecks in both artificial and bio-hybrid olfactory systems
 . Emerging functional nanomaterials\, which exhibit unique optical\, elect
 rical\, and chemical properties as well as offer abundant structure tuning
  capabilities\, have taken a center stage in unveiling potential solutions
  for these challenges. Through this dissertation work we demonstrate the p
 romise of nanotechnology in realizing next-generation chemical sensing too
 ls that can outperform the current gold standard techniques in sensitivity
 \, specificity\, reliability\, and speed.
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SUMMARY:IMSE Dissertation Defense: Prashant Gupta
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