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Council to honor NJIT SmartPin
Date:11/5/2007

electronic sensors to sense pin-to-target distance, dispense volume, control liquid spin-off as well as the quality of dispensation.

The challenge is always to produce a higher yield of the smallest possible uniform spots to accommodate large test samples and improve reliability, said Chang. The size of the SmartPin droplet is now less than 60 micronsabout half the thickness of a typical human hair.

There are more benefits, said Chang. All aspects of dispensing and detection are done without contaminating the target surface with a foreign element. The invention is flexible, reliable, and not as costly to produce because it is so small and easy to manufacture. Down the road, we should be able to knock out in production what are essentially tiny bio-hazard chips. The chips can be readily deployed in battlefields, population centers, and transportation hubs for detection and identification of bio-hazards and bio-warfare.

The development of SmartPin was supported by a three-year $634,000 grant (active through 2007) from the National Science Foundation, plus equipment donations from Genomic Solutions, a division of Harvard Bioscience, and Kearfott Corp.

The patent Delivery of Metered Amounts of Liquid Materials relates to the mini-revolution happening today in the sciences in which automation and high-speed computing has opened economic doors.


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Contact: Sheryl Weinstein
sheryl.m.weinstein@njit.edu
973-596-3436
New Jersey Institute of Technology
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