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ReviewEssays in biochemistry2016

Electrochemical biosensors and nanobiosensors.

Jules L Hammond, Nello Formisano, Pedro Estrela, Sandro Carrara, Jan Tkac

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Review in Essays in biochemistry, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 89 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

89 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jules L HammondDepartment of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, U.K.
Nello FormisanoDepartment of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, U.K.
Pedro EstrelaDepartment of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, U.K. p.estrela@bath.ac.uk.
Sandro CarraraIntegrated Systems Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Jan TkacInstitute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dubravska cesta 9, 845 38 Bratislava, Slovakia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Electrochemical techniques have great promise for low-cost miniaturised easy-to-use portable devices for a wide range of applications-in particular, medical diagnosis and environmental monitoring. Different techniques can be used for biosensing, with amperometric devices taking the central role due to their widespread application in glucose monitoring. In fact, glucose biosensing takes an approximately 70% share of the biosensor market due to the need for diabetic patients to monitor their sugar levels several times a day, making it an appealing commercial market.In this review, we present the basic principles of electrochemical biosensor devices. A description of the different generations of glucose sensors is used to describe in some detail the operation of amperometric sensors and how the introduction of mediators can enhance the performance of the sensors. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy is a technique being increasingly used in devices due to its ability to detect variations in resistance and capacitance upon binding events. Novel advances in electrochemical sensors, due to the use of nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes and graphene, are presented as well as future directions that the field is taking.

Indexed as

Biosensing TechniquesElectrochemical TechniquesGraphiteNanotubes, CarbonGraphiteNanotubes, Carbonamperometric biosensorbiosensorcarbon nanotubeschronocoulometryelectrochemical impedance spectroscopyelectrochemistryglucosegraphenereduced graphene oxide

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PMID27365037
PMCPMC4986461

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