• Developed all-fabric solution for energy harvesting & wireless bio-sensing, woven into garments for comfortable health monitoring.

• Developed an innovative wearable motion capture system, featuring an all-textile garment and a compact reader, enabling comfortable and wireless data capture.

• Critically assessed various engineering approaches for self-powered electrochemical sensors in review.

Supervisor: Prof. Carlo Menon

• Collaborated on a technology transfer project between research institutes and a company.

• Developed a novel self-powered potentiometric sensor with integrated data storage, enabling on-demand readout. Demonstrated detection of sodium in sweat and pH in water samples using ion-selective electrodes.

• Developed a coulometric readout method integrated with an automated flow system for high-precision and ultrasensitive ion detection with ion-selective electrodes.

Supervisors: Prof. Eric Bakker & Prof. Neus Sabaté

• Pioneered paper-based, self-powered glucometer featuring an innovative enzymatic electrical readout enabled by minimalistic circuit. This microliter-blood-powered sensor delivers highly accurate glucose readings & secured ERC proof-of-concept grant.

• Developed a self-powered point-of-care HIV platform combining a smart circuit with a biofuel-powered EGOFET sensor on paper, leveraging the sample for energy.

• Fabricated self-activating Al-Pt microbatteries using silicon tech, enabling cell stimulation (electrical) directly in biological environments without external power.

Supervisor: Prof. Neus Sabaté

• Developed a portable, smartphone-based platform for rapid, on-site detection of mucin, utilizing synthesized Au nanocluster probes and advanced image analysis.

Supervisor: Prof. Arun Chattopadhyay

• Pioneered an integrated, portable point-of-care platform for RT-PCR, gene & protein analysis (Au nanocluster probes), enabling rapid & sensitive diagnosis through automated software-driven analysis.

• Pioneered a smartphone-controlled, portable photodynamic therapy device (Ag nanorods) offering integrated therapeutic response monitoring via diagnostic optical assays.

• Developed optically responsive biocompatible Boolean logic gates using Au nanoclusters sensitive to physiological parameters (pH, T, ions), paving the way for in-vivo biocomputing.

• Engineered a novel microbot using catalytic nanoparticles and self-propelled motion to generate electricity for potential applications in energy harvesting or triggering signals. Developed prototype, circuit & software demonstrate feasibility.

Supervisor: Prof. Arun Chattopadhyay