The proposed micro-CEC technology has great potential to complement NASA's current efforts to find signature of life on Mars such as Urey Mars Organic Analyzer and Mars Organic Detector. The proposed technology has broad applications including on-chip biosensors, electrochemical sensors, wet-chemistry systems, as well as high pressure micropumps for fluid positioning, mixing, metering, storage, and filtering systems. In addition, our novel technology is naturally suited to such applications as planetary and small body surface chemistry studies, clinical diagnostics, spacecraft and biosphere environmental monitoring, and toxicology studies. Finally, the novel micro-CEC technology will also benefit NASA's other "Micro Laboratories" programs such as monitoring Space Station environment and in-situ explorations of Europa and Titan. The next generation mciro-CEC technology described in this proposal possesses a myriad of potential commercial technologies and applications in markets ranging from specialty medical and aerospace industries to consumer electronics. The primary commercial products based on such CEC technology are components for DNA, protein and drug separation and analysis, biological and chemical analysis systems, and drug delivery systems in pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. In addition, the EOF based technology is also well suited for MEMS actuator systems and embedded health monitoring systems. Our proprietary technology vastly improves robustness and reliability, thus clearing one of the last hurdles of a wider acceptance of CEC in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries
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