MOLOKO - Multiplex phOtonic sensor for pLasmonic-based Online detection of contaminants in milK (DCM.AD006.003)

Thematic area

Chemical sciences and materials technology

Project area

Structure responsible for the research project

Institute of nanostructured materials (ISMN)

Project manager

STEFANO TOFFANIN
Phone number: 051/6398514
Email: s.toffanin@bo.ismn.cnr.it

Abstract

The objective of MOLOKO project is manufacturing, implementation and validation of a self-managing and automatic miniaturized integrated photonic sensor to be used as process analytical instrumentation for fast-response on-site monitoring of interest analytes for security and quality within milk supply chain.These challenging objectives are achieved by integrating within the save device platform forefront technologies as organic photonics,nanoplasmonics,immunoassay diagnostics and microfluidics.Specifically,we aim at realizing multiplexing quantitative detection of up to 10 analytes among which food safety parameters,e.g.antibiotics and toxins and food quality parameters e.g.lactoferrin and caseins by implementing a highly-integrated optoplasmonic-microfluidic sensor in the strategic checkpoints along the entire supply and value chain of milk. The MOLOKO miniaturized integrated photonic sensor is specifically designed according to milk primary production,processing and distribution end-users in order to enable and guarantee fast,low-cost,robust,quantitative and high-sensitive multiplexing detection for the rapid acceptance screening of milk from primary producers or single bovine

Start date of activity

01/12/2017

Keywords

Optical sensors, Nanophotonics, Food quality

Last update: 22/04/2025