High Performance Organic Materials for Application in Gas Sensing for Smart Food Packaging

This project will focus on the production of new molecules with a focus towards producing highly sensitive sensors for biogenic amines. Biogenic amines are molecules produced in food when they spoil, and can be used to identify spoilage within food. This technology is a promising strategy for the reduction of food waste as well as the reduction of the spread of food-borne illness. Food waste and food-borne illness are massive problems that contribute to global emissions, water wastage, food insecurity and undernourishment, and health. Creating technologies to solve these problems can be massively impactful and beneficial to these worldwide issues.

Faculty Supervisor:

Gregory Welch

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Partner:

Université d'Angers

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Clean Technology

University:

University of Calgary

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