Notre Dame Launches Sensor Initiative to Combat Bird Flu, Opioid Crisis
September 08, 2025
From the spread of dangerous pathogens like avian influenza (bird flu) to the devastating toll of narcotics like fentanyl, many of today’s public health threats share a common need: better, faster detection.
To meet this need, Notre Dame Research (NDR) has launched the ND Sensor Initiative (NDSI). An interdisciplinary effort to develop and deploy advanced sensor technologies that can save lives and protect communities, the initiative unites researchers from across the University to create precise, rapid, and low-cost tests for emerging threats.
To meet this need, Notre Dame Research (NDR) has launched the ND Sensor Initiative (NDSI). An interdisciplinary effort to develop and deploy advanced sensor technologies that can save lives and protect communities, the initiative unites researchers from across the University to create precise, rapid, and low-cost tests for emerging threats.
Notre Dame Serving Community Analytical Needs (ND-SCAN)
September 05, 2025
Prof. Myung will be leading Notre Dame Serving Community Analytical Needs (ND-SCAN) to develop sensor technologies that healthcare providers, law enforcement, and harm reduction groups can use in the field to quickly and accurately identify high-potency synthetic opioids, cannabinoids, and other psychoactive substances in complex mixtures. These technologies will give caregivers, emergency responders, and health departments across Indiana and neighboring states critical information they need to address new substances infiltrating local illicit drug supplies.
Keeping cool this summer
August 12, 2025
Ivy Tech professors amp up their AC game at Notre DameFrom discovering novel ways to purify and reuse chemicals to creating sensors that will make cooling systems safer and more cost-efficient, teams of researchers have been working together this summer to modernize a sector many take for granted: the heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration industry.
Nosang Myung elected a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society
June 27, 2025
Nosang Vincent Myung, the Bernard Keating-Crawford Professor of Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected a 2025 Fellow of The Electrochemical Society (ECS). He is one of only 12 scholars worldwide to receive this recognition, which honors his pioneering work in electrodeposition and sensor technologies as well as service to the Society and leadership within it.
University of Notre Dame and Dublin City University set to collaborate on new Precision Biomedical Technologies
“Wearable and Skin-Conformable Theranostic Technology for Disease Management (WeaTher),”
OneAir Nanoscale Hazard Detection System received Reddot Award
The ONEAIR NANOSCALE HAZARD DETECTION SYSTEM uses nanoscale sensors to quickly identify and respond to personal and environmental health hazards. It features modular, upgradable sensors for real-time updates and accuracy. The system provides handheld and wall-mounted solutions, collecting and visualising anonymised population data for informed public health decisions. Adaptable to new healthcare concerns, it ensures precise hazard detection through cloud-based analysis.
Notre Dame researchers to develop electronic nose for rapid disease detection
Fri, Feb 16, 2024
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Convergence Accelerator Program has awarded $650,000 to the University of Notre Dame to support the development of an advanced electronic nose that researchers say could help prevent the next pandemic.…
Nosang Myung elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
December 16, 2022
Nosang Myung, the Bernard Keating-Crawford Professor of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
Election as an NAI Fellow is the highest professional honor awarded solely to academic inventors. The NAI Fellows Selection Committee chooses inventors who demonstrate a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and welfare of society.
Election as an NAI Fellow is the highest professional honor awarded solely to academic inventors. The NAI Fellows Selection Committee chooses inventors who demonstrate a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and welfare of society.
Our latest work was published in Science Robotics (Dec. 2, 2021)
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Collaborative work with Prof. Yadong Yin's group entitled "Light-powered soft steam engines for self-adaptive oscillation and biomimetic swimming" was just accepted in Science Robotics |
Myung's group works with Aptima to Develop SMARTWATCH for Health and Hazard Monitoring of Military Personnel
Engineering professor develops prototype for robotic nose (New Article in Observers)
Sept 23,2021
Engineers develop prototype of electronic nose
September 01, 2021
Our proposed work entitled "Smart Process Analytical Technologies Sensor System" was funded by #NSF Center for Bioanalytic Metrology.
12/9/2020: Manuscript entitled "Polarization-Modulated Multidirectional Photothermal Actuators" was published in Advanced Materials
European Patent
9/3/2020: It is pleasure to announce that our European patent entitled “Metal and Metal Oxide Co-Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for High Performance Gas Sensors” has now been validated in Germany, France and the United Kingdom. The German validation has been assigned German National No. 602011067672.5.
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AD&T Viral Infections & Related Phenomena8/13/2020: Our lab received a funding from ND AD&T to develop nano-enabled sensor system for COVID-19 patient care.
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8/6/2020: Manuscript entitled "L-Arginine-Incorporated Cement Mortar as Sustainable Artificial Reefs" were published in Sustainability.settings
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Coverpage in Materials Chemistry FrontiersManuscript entitled "Single-crystalline CoFe nanoparticles encapsulated in N-doped carbon nanotubes as a bifunctional catalyst for water splitting" was selected as the coverpage for latest issue of Materials Chemistry Frontiers
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July 31, 2020: Manuscript entitled "Synthesis of Gold Nanostructures Using Glycine as the Reducing Agent" was published in Nanotechnology. (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6528/abaa76)
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July 19, 2020: Manuscript entitled "Bi2O2Se as a novel co-catalyst for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction" was published in Chemical Engineering Journal (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2020.125931)
July 1 2020: Our team will be joining the University of Notre Dame starting Summer 2020.
Antimicrobial Mask
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June 2, 2020: Our team is collaborating team leads to NSF RAPID grant on PPE materials which capture and kill pathogensEngineers at the University Notre Dame and the Univ. of Iowa are collaborating with a UI College of Public Health faculty member to develop personal protective equipment (PPE) that captures and kills viral pathogens, thereby improving PPE performance and reusability during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their work as led to a new one-year, $200,000 NSF RAPID grant.
The work leverages over a decade of collaboration on projects related to the use of a fabrication process called electrospinning to produce nanoengineered, multi-functional filtration materials for water treatment. The team is adapting its approach to making water filters and turning turn them into materials suitable for PPE. By integrating biocidal materials, the team aims to produce a composite nanofiber filter that will be able to capture and kill aerosolized virus in a lightweight, breathable framework suitable for integration into PPE like masks and respirators. |
