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Joseph Wang, director of the Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors at ASU’s Biodesign Institute, will play a leading role in two major research projects aimed at improving the environment and enhancing national security efforts.
Wang, a professor with joint appointments in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will serve as ASU principal investigator for the project "Wearable Nanosensor Array for Monitoring Diesel Exhaust." The project will be supported by a grant of $500,000 from the National Institutes of Health to be shared with the University of California-Riverside. Wang’s role will include developing vapor detection of toxic metals and related supportive portable instrumentation. ASU collaborators on the project include electrical engineering professors Bertan Bakkaloglu and Andreas Spanias.
In the second project, Wang will serve as principal investigator at ASU for a Motorola Partnership grant for a project titled "Sensor System for Explosive Detection Based on Multiple Orthogonal Detection Schemes." The $1 million grant supports research to improve the detection of explosives with minimal false alarms. Nongjian Tao and Douglas Cochran, professors in the Department of Electrical Engineering, are collaborating with Wang on the project.
