ReviewNano convergence2018
Challenges in paper-based fluorogenic optical sensing with smartphones.
Review in Nano convergence, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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19 citing papers in PubMed.
- A smartphone-based optical detection for rapid and reliable quantification of bacterial contamination on stainless-steel surfaces.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Rapid antithrombin assay from human blood plasma utilizing smartphone-based flow observation on paper chips.PLOS digital health · 2026Article
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- Rod-Shaped NanoZnTPyP Paper-Based Sensor for Visual Detection of Dopamine in Human Plasma.Journal of analytical methods in chemistry · 2025Article
- A colorimetric lateral flow immunoassay based on oriented antibody immobilization for sensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2.Sensors and actuators. B, Chemical · 2023Article
- A Simple and Effective Visual Fluorescent Sensing Paper-Based Chip for the Ultrasensitive Detection of Mercury Ions in Environmental Water.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Promise and perils of paper-based point-of-care nucleic acid detection for endemic and pandemic pathogens.Lab on a chip · 2023Review
- Natural killer cell detection, quantification, and subpopulation identification on paper microfluidic cell chromatography using smartphone-based machine learning classification.Biosensors & bioelectronics · 2022Article
- Microfluidic Paper-based Device for Medicinal Diagnosis.Current topics in medicinal chemistry · 2022Article
- Nano-functionalized paper-based IoT enabled devices for point-of-care testing: a review.Biomedical microdevices · 2021Review
- Disposable Paper-Based Biosensors for the Point-of-Care Detection of Hazardous Contaminations-A Review.Biosensors · 2021Review
- Norovirus detection in water samples at the level of single virus copies per microliter using a smartphone-based fluorescence microscope.Nature protocols · 2021Article
- Portable Instrument for Hemoglobin Determination Using Room-Temperature Phosphorescent Carbon Dots.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Smartphone based on-chip fluorescence imaging and capillary flow velocity measurement for detecting ROR1+ cancer cells from buffy coat blood samples on dual-layer paper microfluidic chip.Biosensors & bioelectronics · 2020Article
- Paper-based in vitro tissue chip for delivering programmed mechanical stimuli of local compression and shear flow.Journal of biological engineering · 2020Article
- Fluorescent fullerene nanoparticle-based lateral flow immunochromatographic assay for rapid quantitative detection of C-reactive protein.Nano convergence · 2019Article
- Designing Paper-Based Immunoassays for Biomedical Applications.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- Sensing with photoluminescent semiconductor quantum dots.Methods and applications in fluorescence · 2019Article
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Abstract
Application of optically superior, tunable fluorescent nanotechnologies have long been demonstrated throughout many chemical and biological sensing applications. Combined with microfluidics technologies, i.e. on lab-on-a-chip platforms, such fluorescent nanotechnologies have often enabled extreme sensitivity, sometimes down to single molecule level. Within recent years there has been a peak interest in translating fluorescent nanotechnology onto paper-based platforms for chemical and biological sensing, as a simple, low-cost, disposable alternative to conventional silicone-based microfluidic substrates. On the other hand, smartphone integration as an optical detection system as well as user interface and data processing component has been widely attempted, serving as a gateway to on-board quantitative processing, enhanced mobility, and interconnectivity with informational networks. Smartphone sensing can be integrated to these paper-based fluorogenic assays towards demonstrating extreme sensitivity as well as ease-of-use and low-cost. However, with these emerging technologies there are always technical limitations that must be addressed; for example, paper's autofluorescence that perturbs fluorogenic sensing; smartphone flash's limitations in fluorescent excitation; smartphone camera's limitations in detecting narrow-band fluorescent emission, etc. In this review, physical optical setups, digital enhancement algorithms, and various fluorescent measurement techniques are discussed and pinpointed as areas of opportunities to further improve paper-based fluorogenic optical sensing with smartphones.
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