Author: Wang Xi

Dr Jason Davis (University of Oxford) has pioneered the application of scanning probe and fluorescence imaging technology to the analysis of bioelectrochemical interfaces; an understanding and control of which is clearly highly beneficial to the development of improved biosensing devices. From the early days of such studies, carried out with Professor Allen Hill FRS, his work has been refined to a level where single, active enzymes and proteins on electrode surfaces can be scrutinised under physiological and electrochemically-controlled conditions. Ground-breaking genetic methodologies are being applied to the generation of enzyme, protein or aptamer molecules which can be self-assembled, in an active form, on metallic electrode surfaces. His research group are also actively engaged in the assembly and construction of host-guest coordination complexes on surfaces, electroanalysis, molecular manipulation and molecular electronics. The group have published more than 80 papers in international journals.