US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION on Nov. 3 for "Method for making polymer single nanowires and sensors utilizing the same" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,315, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh).

"Method for making polymer single nanowires and sensors utilizing the same" was invented by Minhee Yun (Pittsburgh), David Schwartzman (Pittsburgh) and Jiyong Huang (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biomarker detection device comprising: a microfluidic biosensor further comprising a biomarker functionalized polymer single nanowire connecting a pair of gold electrodes on a silicon wafer; the biomarker functionalized polymer single nanowire coupled to a gate electrode by a liquid electrolyte gate; and a...