MoreSense's technology combines the unique properties of Molecularly Imprinted Polymer (MIP) and surface plasmon resonance (SPR), resulting in a transducer specific to a target molecule.
MIPs (Molecularly Imprinted Polymers) are synthetic materials containing specific molecular recognition sites, widely used as receptors because of their good chemical stability and selectivity. MoreSense actively applies its innovative approach to MIPs in order to selectively implement systems of targeted substance detection.
What is SPR technology?
It is based on the optical phenomenon of surface plasmon resonance, which is exploited as a technique to detect a change in refractive index at the interface between a metallic element (layer or particles) and a dielectric medium. In our case, the dielectric medium consists of a MIP specific to a substance of interest, the refractive index of which undergoes a change upon interaction with the analyte.
The Spectra Technology
MoreSense's technology works by harnessing the unique properties of Molecularly Imprinted Polymer (MIP) and surface plasmon resonance (SPR), enabling accurate, real-time detection and measurement of environmental contaminants (such as PFASs), illegal substances, pathogens (such as SARS-CoV-2), and more.
I really believe that there is a lot to be gained from photonics. I realized the importance of having this polymer that really is the focal part of a system of measurements skills own mechanical, mixed mechanical-electronic design, etc. belong in this case also biology belong to very few companies even among semiconductors.
Bruno Murari
-Inventor - Awarded the Elmer A. Sperry 2017
MoreSense addresses an existing pressing problem important to the world today: that of environmental protection, if you will in a broad sense. The sensors developed by MoreSense offer an accuracy that I have not seen in other products on the market at the moment. The combination of physics, engineering, and biology is becoming more and more common especially and also in the sensor field.
Carmelo Papa
-Former CEO of STMicroelectronics
The technology that combines synthetic receptors with optical transduction systems can be reprogrammed to go to what we decide: it can go from explosives to drugs of abuse, to pharmaceuticals, and even to pathogens. Recently we have developed and patented a system for the determination of SARS-CoV-2. Normally to analyze such different analytes typically requires extremely different instrumentation....
Girolamo D'Agostino
-Ph.D. in chemistry and R&D lab manager
There is an increasing push toward real-time monitoring, so with specific sensors, but detecting in real-time, possibly even online, communicating data to a platform through IOT integration, and no longer relying on a current sampling system. So transportation of the sample to the laboratory, and analysis in the laboratory, which dilutes the time so much, the costs are high, and you cannot have real-time monitoring.
Chiara Perri
-Biotechnologist - Ph.D. in electrical engineering
We have developed several applications combined with biomimetic receptors, and worth this long experience of field applications, we decided to carry out the technology transfer and co-founded MoreSense together with other partners with whom we have already been working for some time. We have demonstrated the versatility of this approach, both in terms of being able to modulate the sensitivity of the transducer and in terms of reconfiguring the molecular imprinting within these receptors.
Prof. Nunzio Cennamo
-Co-founder and chief electronics engineer
Here today we are developing two eh sensors: one that is electronic and the other is optical. They're fast, they're very accurate, they're extremely selective, they're cheap, and they're remotely manageable, for example.
The methods that are used around the world today don't see under 4,000 viruses per milliliter, we see eight viruses per milliliter. So the sensitivity is extremely high, they are very very promising.
Guido Chiaretti
-Former director of new technologies STMicroelectronics
Fields of application
MoreSense's intensive in-house research and development enables it to offer a wide range of customizable sensors with different receptors, that can be tailored to individual customer needs. The numerous fields of application highlight the endless possibilities of this technology.
Our patents
From the development of specific adsorbent materials for contaminants to sensor systems for their detection, each patent represents a step forward in our mission to provide advanced and innovative technological solutions.
Release No. 102016000003609 of 17/07/2018
Method, equipment, and process of separating contaminating material from a liquid.
Question N°102020000010657 of 12/05/2020
Optical sensor, sensor system and sensing system to detect the presence and/or concentration of an anality in a solution, process for making said optical sensor.
Question N°102020000010657 of 12/05/2020
Optical sensor, support for said optical sensor and detection system to detect the presence and/or concentration of an anality in a solution.
Release N°3502152 of 15/07/2020
Molecularly molded polymer, its applications and preparation process.
Release N° 102020000015145 of 21/07/2022
Method for detecting a virus in a liquid medium, molecular sensor for its implementation, and procedure for preparing the molecular sensor.
Question N° PCT/IT2020/000088 of 28/12/2020
Optical sensor, sensor system and sensing system to detect the presence and/or concentration of an anality in a solution, process for making such a sensor.
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