Presentations delivered at the NAP Annual Scientific Workshop @ Tyndall National Institute
on Wednesday 27th January 2010 are now available online..........see below

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	Dr. John Herbert University College Cork “A Medical Based Body Area Network for Falls Assessment"	To assist the understanding of the causes of falls in the elderly, this NAP project aims to provide a hardware infrastructure for monitoring relevant vital signs, such as heart-rate, blood-pressure, position in space. A low-intrusion, wearable device, in conjunction with an appropriate software infrastructure, can provide novel real-time falls assessment monitoring capabilities, and thus improve greatly on current in-clinic assessment. ***Download presentation***
	Dr. Anne Moore University College Cork “Design and Fabrication of Microneedle Arrays for Transdermal Vaccine Delivery”	Needle-free drug delivery is a global healthcare priority. ImmuPatch is a range of pain-free transdermal vaccine technologies, developed by combined immunology, pharmaceutics and micro-fabrication expertise, which demonstrate enhanced safety, immunity and efficacy compared to other delivery systems. ImmuPatch thus overcomes many logistic, financial and health issues associated with immunization programmes. ***Download presentation***
	Dr. Tofail Syed University of Limerick “Metal Oxide Formation at the Surface of Metallic Alloys”	NAP 119 is a collaborative project between Dr. Syed Tofail from Materials and Surface Science Institute, University of Limerick and Dr. Michael Nolan, Tyndall National Institute. The project has been undertaken to conduct quantum mechanical simulation of ' Metal Oxide Formation at the Surface of Metallic Alloys'. The work that was done involved Nitinol, a widely used metallic alloy in biomedical applications, as the metallic alloy and investigated its oxidation behaviour. The investigation is now complete and a journal article has been submitted in a leading biomaterial journal. ***Download presentation***
	Dr. Blanaid White Dublin City University “EMμ – Electroactive Monolith μChip – The Next Generation of Separation Science”	This revolutionary μchip has a micro-structured monolith fabricated from intelligent, electroactive polymer. By application of a specific potential, conducting polymers such as polyaniline (PANI) can be reproducibly grown and readily fine-tuned in terms of porosity, hydrophobicity and ionic capacity. This unique chip provides for an Electroactive Monolithic μchip capable of multi- dimensional chromatographic separations. ***Download presentation***
	Dr. Giuliano Greco University College Cork “Atomic Force Microscopic Charaterisation of Crab Eye Surfaces"	Characterization of Carcinus maenas eye surface with Atomic Force Microscope. The characterization of the green crab (Carcinus maenas) eye surface micro/nanotopography and the study of the micro/nano features deterioration throughout the crab’s life cycle by Atomic Force Microscope are the main aims of this NAP project. This study could suggest biomimetic solutions (new textures for micro/nano-engineered surfaces) to the biofouling problem in the field of marine sensors design. ***Download presentation***
	Dr. Patrick Dunlop University of Ulster "Fabrication and characterisation of impedance sensors on silicon/glass with varied gap and pitch interdigitated electrode structure designs"	NAP 215 focused on the development of micro/nano-structured, interdigitated electrodes (IDE’s) for use in impedimetric biosensors. Impedance is a powerful electro-analytical technique capable of label free detection, and incorporation with novel IDE’s provides a high sensitivity, high selectivity, low cost sensing platform. The devices produced through NAP 215 have lead to an increase in understanding related to micro/nano scale impedance and improved antibody-antigen detection limits. ***Download presentation***
	Dr. Martin Hill Cork Institute of Technology Presented by Dr. Conor O'Mahony (Tyndall) “High tuning range MEMS variable capacitor for RF systems (VARICAP)”	This presentation will outline the NAP-supported activities undertaken to develop novel, CMOS-compatible micromechanical varactors and associated fabrication techniques. A patent has been filed to protect the IP associated with the technology and this was recently licenced to an Irish startup company for device commercialisation. ***Download presentation***