TY  - JOUR
A1  - Oberländer, Jan
A1  - Bromm, Alexander
A1  - Wendeler, Luisa
A1  - Iken, Heiko
A1  - Palomar Duran, Marlena
A1  - Greeff, Anton
A1  - Kirchner, Patrick
A1  - Keusgen, Michael
A1  - Schöning, Michael Josef
T1  - Towards a biosensor to monitor the sterilisation efficiency of aseptic filling machines
JF  - Physica status solidi (a)
N2  - Sterilisation processes are compulsory in medicine, pharmacy, and food industries to prevent infections of consumers and microbiological contaminations of products. Monitoring the sterilisation by conventional microbiological methods is time- and lab-consuming. To overcome this problem, in this work a novel biosensor has been proposed. The sensor enables a fast method to evaluate sterilisation processes. By means of thin-film technology the sensor's transducer structures in form of IDEs (interdigitated electrodes) have been fabricated on a silicon substrate. Physical characterisation of the developed sensor was done by AFM, SEM, and profilometry. Impedance analyses were conducted for the electrical characterisation. As microbiological layer spores of B. atrophaeus have been immobilised on the sensing structure; spores of this type are a well-known sterilisation test organism. Impedance measurements at a fixed frequency over time were performed to monitor the immobilisation process. A sterilisation process according to aseptic filling machines was applied to demonstrate the sensor functionality. After both, immobilisation and sterilisation, a change in impedance could successfully be detected.
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pssa.201431900
SN  - 1862-6319
VL  - 212
IS  - 6
SP  - 1299
EP  - 1305
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Weinheim
ER  -