Graduate student Abubakar Adamu, a researcher from the National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM), received the best poster award at Photonics 2015, the 17th national photonics conference. The purpose of the annual event is to contribute to the advancement of technologies in optics, electro-optics and photonics in Turkey. This year’s conference, held at Ankara University, attracted over 400 attendees from across the country.
The award-winning poster, “Binary-Coded Identification of Industrial Chemical Vapors With an Optofluidic Nose,” was authored by Abubakar Isa Adamu, Fahri Emre Öztürk and Mehmet Bayındır. They developed an artificial nose system that detects toxic industrial gases and has potential applications in ozone monitoring, disease diagnosis and other medical applications.