ReviewBiosensors2022
Cost-Effective Fiber Optic Solutions for Biosensing.
Review in Biosensors, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.
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23 citing papers in PubMed.
- Evanescent wave-based optical biosensors for innovations, medical application and future perspectives.Journal of advanced research · 2026Review
- Functionalization Techniques Empowering Optical Fiber Biosensors in Label-Free Cancer Biomarker Detection.Biosensors · 2025Review
- Tapered Optical Fiber Optofluidics: Bridging In-Fiber and Outside-Fiber Architectures Toward Autonomous Lab-on-Fiber Biosensing.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Advancements in Optical Fiber Sensors for pH Measurement: Technologies and Applications.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Optical Method for the Detection of Viral RNA Using an Optical Fiber Sensor.Journal of biophotonics · 2025Article
- Recent Advances in Photonic Crystal Fiber-Based SPR Biosensors: Design Strategies, Plasmonic Materials, and Applications.Micromachines · 2025Review
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- Unlocking early detection of Alzheimer's disease: The emerging role of nanomaterial-based optical sensors.Journal of food and drug analysis · 2024Review
- Splitter-Based Sensors Realized via POFs Coupled by a Micro-Trench Filled with a Molecularly Imprinted Polymer.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Recent Progress on Microfluidics Integrated with Fiber-Optic Sensors for On-Site Detection.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Development of an Immunocapture-Based Polymeric Optical Fiber Sensor for Bacterial Detection in Water.Polymers · 2024Article
- Portable optical fiber biosensors integrated with smartphone: technologies, applications, and challenges [Invited].Biomedical optics express · 2024Review
- All-fiber label-free optical fiber biosensors: from modern technologies to current applications [Invited].Biomedical optics express · 2024Review
- Unpacking the packaged optical fiber bio-sensors: understanding the obstacle for biomedical application.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024Review
- Bioelectrochemical biosensors for water quality assessment and wastewater monitoring.Open life sciences · 2024Review
- Rapid detection of vaccinia virus using biofunctionalized fiber-optic ball-tip biosensors.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Fabry-Perot Interferometric Fiber-Optic Sensor for Rapid and Accurate Thrombus Detection.Biosensors · 2023Article
- Nanostructured biosensing platforms for the detection of food- and water-borne pathogenic Escherichia coli.Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry · 2023Review
- Various Types of Light Guides for Use in Lossy Mode Resonance-Based Sensors.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Aptamers Targeting Membrane Proteins for Sensor and Diagnostic Applications.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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Abstract
In the last years, optical fiber sensors have proven to be a reliable and versatile biosensing tool. Optical fiber biosensors (OFBs) are analytical devices that use optical fibers as transducers, with the advantages of being easily coated and biofunctionalized, allowing the monitorization of all functionalization and detection in real-time, as well as being small in size and geometrically flexible, thus allowing device miniaturization and portability for point-of-care (POC) testing. Knowing the potential of such biosensing tools, this paper reviews the reported OFBs which are, at the moment, the most cost-effective. Different fiber configurations are highlighted, namely, end-face reflected, unclad, D- and U-shaped, tips, ball resonators, tapered, light-diffusing, and specialty fibers. Packaging techniques to enhance OFBs' application in the medical field, namely for implementing in subcutaneous, percutaneous, and endoscopic operations as well as in wearable structures, are presented and discussed. Interrogation approaches of OFBs using smartphones' hardware are a great way to obtain cost-effective sensing approaches. In this review paper, different architectures of such interrogation methods and their respective applications are presented. Finally, the application of OFBs in monitoring three crucial fields of human life and wellbeing are reported: detection of cancer biomarkers, detection of cardiovascular biomarkers, and environmental monitoring.
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