Graphene and painkiller receptor combined into scalable chemical sensor
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - 08:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Researchers have created an artificial chemical sensor based on one of the human body's most important receptors, one that is critical in the action of painkillers and anesthetics. In these devices, the receptors' activation produces an electrical response rather than a biochemical one, allowing that response to be read out by a computer.