Applied Nanolayers and SoundCell BV – a spin-off from Technische Universiteit Delft – have received a €275,000 ($290,000) grant from Provincie Zuid-Holland, the region’s local government, to prototype a high-throughput graphene-based antibiotic sensitivity test.
The inspiration for the test came from previous work at TU Delft investigating the ability of bilayer graphene to detect nanoscale forces generated by the flagellum of single E.coli bacteria