**Integrated p-NOI Structures on Nanoporous Material Designed for Biodetection Designed for Biodetection**

**Integrated p-NOI Structures on Nanoporous Material** 

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.73175

Cristian Ravariu, Elena Manea, Alina Popescu and Cătălin Pârvulescu Cătălin Pârvulescu Additional information is available at the end of the chapter

Cristian Ravariu, Elena Manea, Alina Popescu and

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.73175

#### **Abstract**

Pesticides are utilized to protect the crops, destroying or controlling any pest. Unfortunately, pesticides pollute the entire environment: plants, organisms, soil, and water. This chapter describes a paraoxon pesticide biosensor that includes nanostructures and porous materials integrated on silicon (Si), as convergent objectives of the green microelectronics strategy. The transducer element is in an interdigitated capacitive electrode that recently highlighted a special nanostructure—the planar nothing on insulator (p-NOI)—included in the capacitive detection system. The biodetection is based on the hydrolysis of the acetylcholinesterase (AChE) enzyme as biosensor receptor. So, the final application is an enzymatic biosensor that utilizes the nanoporous Si layer for the enzyme adsorption, with p-NOI capacitive transducer, for the environmental monitoring.

**Keywords:** biomaterials, electronics, nanotechnologies, biosensor tool, green environment
