Currently, she is a Ph.D. student at Emerging Technologies Research Centre (EMTERC), De Montfort University, investigating fabrication of nanomaterials for biosensor application. KS received her BS degree in physics at Patras University, Greece in 2010 and her MSc degree in 2011 in Microelectronics Selleckchem JQ1 and Nanotechnology at EMTERC, De Montfort University. Currently, she
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