Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29225421›Full record

ArticleSensors and actuators. B, Chemical2018

Flow-through microfluidic immunosensors with refractive index-matched silica monoliths as volumetric optical detection elements.

M S Wiederoder, E L Kendall, J-H Han, R G Ulrich, D L DeVoe

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Article in Sensors and actuators. B, Chemical, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 39% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Current Conjugation Methods for Immunosensors.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

M S WiederoderFischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.
E L KendallDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.
J-H HanMolecular and Translational Sciences, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Frederick, Maryland, USA.
R G UlrichMolecular and Translational Sciences, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Frederick, Maryland, USA.
D L DeVoeFischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA.
University of Maryland, College Park · USUnited States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases · US

Funding

Integrated polymer microfluidic device for multiplex diagnosis of viral infectionR01AI096215 · NIAID · GENEVA FOUNDATION · PI ULRICH, ROBERT G. · 2011 to 2015
$4.4M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI096215
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A sensitive and rapid absorbance based immunosensor that utilizes ex situ functionalized porous silica monoliths as volumetric optical detection elements is demonstrated in this study. The porous monolith structure facilitates high capture probe density and short diffusion length scales, enabling sensitive and rapid assays. Silica monoliths, synthesized and functionalized with immunocapture probes off-chip before integration into a sealed thermoplastic microfluidic device, serve to capture target antigens during perfusion through the porous structure. Gold nanoparticle immunoconjugates are combined with silver enhancement to create microscale silver clusters, followed by perfusion of an aqueous sucrose solution to limit light scattering and enhance optical signal. Using this approach, detection limits as low as 1 ng/mL are achieved for a sandwich assay, with a dynamic range of at least 4 logs. The results confirm that the combination of on-chip index matching with functionalized porous silica monoliths can enables simple and practical flow-through immunoassays for the sensitive and rapid detection of target antigens.

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index matchingsilver enhancementvolumetric sensing

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PMID29225421
PMCPMC5716804
OpenAlexW2738395148

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