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This Center for Sensing Technology and Research (CSTAR) was founded in 1999 as a cohesive, high-impact program directed toward fundamental and applied research in new sensor technology.
In recent years, engineers and scientists have begun to concentrate on development of highly specific and sensitive sensors. These are sufficiently small and robust to be applied in situations, often with computer monitoring, to allow real time sensing and analysis, on a time scale that is compatible with the process being monitored.
Chief among the research goals is a quest for improved selectivity, which is to say, the ability of any particular sensor or analytical device to respond sensitively and quantitatively to only that substance or substances which it is designed to detect. To meet this goal, selective biological systems, or specifically engineered and fabricated materials can be employed.
This center deals with all these core issues of the sensing technology and research.
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