Publications by Ioulia Tzouvadaki

New Approach for Making Standard the Development of Biosensing Devices by a Modular Multi-Purpose Design

Sandro Carrara, Francesca Stradolini, Ioulia Tzouvadaki, Danilo Demarchi, Francesca Criscuolo, Abuduwaili Tuoheti, Simone Aiassa

The fast widening of biosensing applications, such as healthcare, drug delivery, food, and military industries, is increasing the need for generality and compatibility among different sensors. To address this challenge, we present here an innovative approa ...

2020

Multi-panel, on-single-chip Memristive Biosensing

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Danilo Demarchi, Ioulia Tzouvadaki, Abuduwaili Tuoheti

Memristive biosensors have demonstrated excellent capabilities for ultrasensitive bio-detection. In the present work, memristive biosensing chips are designed, fabricated and implemented in a for the first time presented multi-panel on-chip detection for d ...

2019

Memristive Biosensors based on Full-size Antibodies and Antibody Fragments

Giovanni De Micheli, Ioulia Tzouvadaki, Sandro Carrara, Sébastien Naus

For the first time memristive biosensors developed by the incorporation of scAbs (single-chain antibody fragments) enabling label-free detection of free Prostate Specific Antigen (fPSA) for early-stage detection of prostate cancer (PC) are reported. In add ...

2019

Performance of Carbon Nano-Scale Allotropes in Detecting Midazolam and Paracetamol in Undiluted Human Serum

Giovanni De Micheli, Nima Aliakbarinodehi, Sandro Carrara, Francesca Stradolini, Irene Taurino, Ioulia Tzouvadaki, Sattar Akbari Nakhjavani

Nano-materials are highly exploited to enhance sensing performance of electrochemical electrodes by increasing the Electro-Active Surface Area (EASA). In this work, an analytical calculation of the deposited EASA is presented and experimentally validated b ...

2018

Portable Memristive Biosensing System as Effective Point-of-Care Device for Cancer Diagnostics

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Ioulia Tzouvadaki, Danilo Demarchi, Abuduwaili Tuoheti

Memristive biosensors have been proved as excellent candidates for ultrasensitive biosensing. In this work, a novel portable bio-detection system based on memristive biosensors is designed, developed and tested for providing a significantly fast, automatic ...

IEEE2018

Graphene nanowalls for high-performance chemotherapeutic drug sensing and anti-fouling properties

Giovanni De Micheli, Ioulia Tzouvadaki, Sandro Carrara, Nima Aliakbarinodehi

Improved sensitivity and continuous monitoring of therapeutic compounds are two of the most highlighted concerns for the treatment of malignant diseases, such as cancer. We demonstrated ultrasensitive screening of etoposide, a therapeutic compound widely-u ...

2018

Nanoscale Sensors for Ultrasensitive Label-free Detection of Cancer Biomarkers and Monitoring of Therapeutic Compounds

Ioulia Tzouvadaki

Prostate cancer is a life-threatening malignant disease, one the most common cancer types in men and leading cause of death among men because of cancer. Considering the state of the art for the diagnosis of prostate cancer a man overall has to suffer uncom ...

EPFL2017

The memristive effect as a novelty in drug monitoring

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Ioulia Tzouvadaki, Nima Aliakbarinodehi

Nanoscale devices exhibiting memristive properties show great potential in a plethora of applications. In this work, memristive nanowires are presented for the first time as ideal candidates for absolutely novel, ultrasensitive, highly specific and selecti ...

2017

Memristive Aptasensors for Theranostics

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Ioulia Tzouvadaki, Nima Aliakbarinodehi

A new application in the nano-biosensing field gives proof that the coupling of nanofabricated wires exhibiting mem- ristive electrical characteristics and DNA-aptamers, may provide definitely innovative nano-bio-sensors for ultrasensitive label-free detec ...

2017

An Efficient Electronic Measurement Interface for Memristive Biosensors

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Ioulia Tzouvadaki, Armando Biscontini, Sébastien Naus

Reducing sensing time is one major concern in clinical diagnostics. In the present work, a robust measurement system is developed aiming at the faster and easier signal acquisition of memristive biosensors. Sensing chips consisting of nanofabricated silico ...

IEEE2017