ECSA-5

"From a tear you shed in silence, I found a lot about you..." the lyrics of a famous Italian 60's song stated and ... poets often see far away. In fact, the tears are a rich source of information of our health state with surprising diagnostic perspectives for eye diseases, but not only. The progress in nanotechnology allows today to perform optical analyses with high precision and sensitivity comparable with conventional biochemical analyses, but with times and methods that are immeasurably shorter and easier. In collaboration with the Exp. Medicine Dept. of the "L. Vanvitelli" University of Naples, CNR-SPIN developed a process of Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) aimed to high-sensitivity spectroscopy of fluids. In collaboration with the Olftamological Clinic and the Public Health Dept. of the "Federico II" University of Naples the method has been tested on human tears. The results will be presented at the 5th Int. Electr. Conference on Sensors and Applications ECSA-5 (on-line from November 15 to 30) in the communication: "A preliminary investigation on human tears by means of surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy" by C. Camerlingo , M. Lisitskiy, M. Lepore, M. Portaccio, D. Montorio, S. Del Prete, G. Cennamo. The communication can be free downloaded here