Patents Assigned to Sandia Corporation - New Mexico Regents of the University of California
  • Sol-gel matrices for direct colorimetric detection of analytes
    Patent number: 6022748
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and compositions for the direct detection of analytes using color changes that occur in immobilized biopolymeric material in response to selective binding of analytes to their surface. In particular, the present invention provides methods and compositions related to the encapsulation of biopolymeric material into metal oxide glass using the sol-gel method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: Sandia Corporation - New Mexico Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Deborah H. Charych, Darryl Sasaki, Stacey Yamanaka