Analytical Chemistry
Room: C2 277
Extension: 84840
Email: vkaranassios@.uwaterloo.ca
Website: Vassili Karanassios
Research
My research interests are in the area of micro- and nano-analysis (e.g., metrology) and in development of miniaturized instruments that can be used on-site (i.e., in the field). Such instruments are fabricated on-chips so that they can fit in the palm of a hand or in a shirt pocket, thus allowing users to take “the lab to the sample”. The sample may be a “patient” (for early diagnosis of disease) and the field may be a health clinic or the environment (e.g., the air we breathe or the water we drink).
Recent publications
- Rapid prototyping of hybrid, plastic-quartz 3d-chips for battery-operated microplasmas, S. Wegant, L. Li and V. Karanassios. Book chapter in: Rapid Prototyping Technology - Principles and Functional Requirements, E. M. Hoque (Ed.), ISBN 978-953-307-970-7 (Sept. 2011) [Invited]-Open access.
- Battery-operated, argon-hydrogen microplasma on hybrid, postage stamp-size plastic-quartz chips for elemental analysis of liquid microsamples using a portable optical emission spectrometer, S. Weagant, V. Chen and V. Karanassios, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (published, on-line first, DOI 10.1007/s00216-011-5372-x, 2011).
- Battery-operated, planar-geometry microplasma on a postage-stamp size chips: Some fundamentals, S. Wegant and V. Karanassios. Proc. SPIE 8024, 80240L (2011); 7-pages; doi:10.1117/12.884329.
- Application of wavelet transforms in de-noising optical emission transient signals generated from microsamples introduced into a microplasma and comparison with Fourier- and Hartrley transforms, D. Hunter and V. Karanassios. Proc. SPIE 8058, 80580A (2011); 7 pages; doi:10.1117/12.887211.
- Development of artificial neural networks for spectral interference correction in optical emission spectrometry, Z. Li and V. Karanassios. Proc. SPIE 8058, 80580J (2011); 7 pages; doi:10.1117/12.884341.
