Thirteenth Annual Johannes F. Coetzee Memorial Lecture

This year's Coetzee Memorial Lecture speaker is Prof. Philippe (Phil) Buhlmann, University of Minnesota. Title: Next-Generation Wearable Health Sensors: How Materials Chemistry Enables Continuous Electrochemical Monitoring Abstract: Chemical sensors for use in human body fluids, environmental waters, and industrial process monitoring are highly sensitive and selective analytical tools that offer a variety of advantages, such as simplicity of measurement, high analysis throughput, rapid detection, continuous on-line monitoring, and low cost of analysis. While such sensors are used in clinical laboratories for billions of measurements every year, applications in continuous health monitoring still pose many challenges. The Buhlmann group has contributed to the development of such sensors with new design principles and quantitative theory as well as the introduction of new materials to meet the needs of real life applications. This talk will address the long-term sensor stability of wearable and implantable sensors, challenges and opportunities of calibration-free measurements, miniaturization and low-cost design for point-of-care analysis, and—in view of long-term monitoring in the human body and the environment—robust design and resistance to chemical and biological fouling. Bio: Dr. Bühlmann received his B.S. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at the University of Tokyo. He leads an internationally recognized research program developing chemical sensors based on molecular recognition, fluorous materials, and carbon nanomaterials for clinical, environmental, and food industry applications. See more of Dr. Buhlmann's research on his website: https://buhlmann.chem.umn.edu/