Conjugated Polymers-Based Biosensors for Virus Detection
A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensor Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 14603
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Human beings are still enduring the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, which has spread throughout the world and significantly affected all countries and territories, causing a socioeconomic crunch. The COVID-19 pandemic is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. This virus constantly changes through mutation, resulting in new variants. Moreover, it has been expected that there is a high possibility that several new viruses could appear in the future. Therefore, development of advanced technologies for early and accurate diagnosis of the coronavirus, as well as other viruses, has been still very important and should be accorded a priority equivalent to vaccinations.
As an alternative for current standard technologies, including RT-PCR, CT scans, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs), and serological assays, biosensors are regarded as the next-generation diagnostic technologies for viruses due to their capability to detect various biological analytes, i.e., DNA/RNA, pathogens, and biomarkers. Conductive polymer-based biosensors are especially promising technologies due to their excellent sensitivity and selectivity to specific virus biomarkers and fast electrical signals. Therefore, we would like to invite you to contribute your work to this Special Issue which covers advancements in development of conductive polymer-based biosensors for detecting DNA/RNA or various biomarkers of viruses.
Dr. Vinh Van Tran
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- conjugated polymers and their composites in design of biosensors
- organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) and electronic devices-based biosensors
- electrochemical biosensors based on conductive polymers
- DNA/RNA and protein detections
- COVID-19 and other virus detections
Planned Papers
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Kieu The Loan Trinh,1 Hoang Dang Khoa Do,2 and Nae Yoon Lee 3*
1 Department of Industrial Environmental Engineering, Gachon University
1342 Seongnam-daero, Sujeong-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, 13120, Korea.
2 NTT Hi-Tech Institute, Nguyen Tat Thanh University, Ward 13, District
04, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
3 Department of BioNano Technology, Gachon University 1342
Seongnam-daero, Sujeong-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, 13120, Korea.
* Corresponding authors. E-mail address: nylee@gachon.ac.kr (N. Y. Lee)
abstract:
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) caused the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak has forced researchers to develop accurate, timely, and cost-effective diagnostic tests for SARS-CoV-2 as well as other virus infections in general. With the integration of microfluidic and biosensor technologies, microfluidic-based biosensors which offer the ability to perform sample preparation and simultaneous detection of many different analyzes in one platform stand out with the benefits of both technologies. High sensitivity, accuracy, portability, low-cost, high throughput, and real-time detection can be achieved in one single platform. This review presents recent advances of microfluidic-based biosensors from many literatures to demonstrate the advantages of merging two technologies in sensing viruses. Different platforms applied in virus detection are classified into two main sections including immunoassay and molecular assay. Moreover, available commercialized
sensing tests have also been analyzed.