To address the challenge of highly sensitive and accurate detection of biomarkers in complex environments,a rational engineering strategy for designing electrochemical immunosensing platform is proposed.Herein,we deve...To address the challenge of highly sensitive and accurate detection of biomarkers in complex environments,a rational engineering strategy for designing electrochemical immunosensing platform is proposed.Herein,we develop a microsensor chip through the combination of multiplexed electrodes and microfluidic channels for the parallel detection of human interleukins(IL-6 and IL-8).For the construction of an efficient sensing interface,the conductive silver nanowires(Ag NWs)wrapped with zeolitic imidazolate framework(ZIF-8)thin film(denoted as ZIF-8@Ag NWs)are prepared,and then employed for the multi-functionalization of electrodes.The immunodetection of ILs is based on the direct signal transduction ability of Ag NWs and specific interaction of periodically arranged Zn2+ions in ZIF-8 films with biomolecules,which offer the high assay sensitivity and good specificity.The immunosensor chip achieves a wide detection range from pg/mL to ng/mL and possesses the ability to resist non-specific proteins adsorption in biological complex media.Further clinical serum samples assay verifies that the combination of IL-6 and IL-8 levels yields high diagnostic accuracy.Principal component analysis(PCA)reveals that 18 patient samples could be fully separated from healthy control samples.The low-cost,easily fabricated electrochemical immunosensing platform provides a rapid serum test for diagnosis and personalized therapy of inflammatory diseases,and can also be generalized to other immunoreaction-based biomarkers detections.展开更多
This paper studies gas detectors, especially, gas sensors in which a thermochemical reac-tion takes place on a catalytic element. The novel catalytic sensor is fabricated using micro-electronic thick-film techniques, ...This paper studies gas detectors, especially, gas sensors in which a thermochemical reac-tion takes place on a catalytic element. The novel catalytic sensor is fabricated using micro-electronic thick-film techniques, and it is used to monitor the concentration of combustiblegases and their mixture in a flow reactor. This sensor has two identical platinum films whichare used as the heater, resistance thermometer and the surface of reaction. Catalyst of palla-dium is deposited on one of the platinum film by chemical method, while the other platinumfilm serves as a compensating element. The difference in the minimum reaction temperaturefor the catalytic oxidation of the combustible gas components of mixture by palladium sug-gests that it is possible to analyse such a gas mixture. The purpose of the study is to demon-strate that the sensor fabricated by this process has good sensing characteristics for hydrogenor carbon monoxide gas in the mixture of methane and ethane.展开更多
基金funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2021YFB3200804)Shanghai“Road and Belt”International Cooperation Project(No.19520744200)the Key Basic Research Program of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality(No.20JC1415303).
文摘To address the challenge of highly sensitive and accurate detection of biomarkers in complex environments,a rational engineering strategy for designing electrochemical immunosensing platform is proposed.Herein,we develop a microsensor chip through the combination of multiplexed electrodes and microfluidic channels for the parallel detection of human interleukins(IL-6 and IL-8).For the construction of an efficient sensing interface,the conductive silver nanowires(Ag NWs)wrapped with zeolitic imidazolate framework(ZIF-8)thin film(denoted as ZIF-8@Ag NWs)are prepared,and then employed for the multi-functionalization of electrodes.The immunodetection of ILs is based on the direct signal transduction ability of Ag NWs and specific interaction of periodically arranged Zn2+ions in ZIF-8 films with biomolecules,which offer the high assay sensitivity and good specificity.The immunosensor chip achieves a wide detection range from pg/mL to ng/mL and possesses the ability to resist non-specific proteins adsorption in biological complex media.Further clinical serum samples assay verifies that the combination of IL-6 and IL-8 levels yields high diagnostic accuracy.Principal component analysis(PCA)reveals that 18 patient samples could be fully separated from healthy control samples.The low-cost,easily fabricated electrochemical immunosensing platform provides a rapid serum test for diagnosis and personalized therapy of inflammatory diseases,and can also be generalized to other immunoreaction-based biomarkers detections.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Edison Sensor Tech. Center, Dept of Development of the State of Ohio, USA.
文摘This paper studies gas detectors, especially, gas sensors in which a thermochemical reac-tion takes place on a catalytic element. The novel catalytic sensor is fabricated using micro-electronic thick-film techniques, and it is used to monitor the concentration of combustiblegases and their mixture in a flow reactor. This sensor has two identical platinum films whichare used as the heater, resistance thermometer and the surface of reaction. Catalyst of palla-dium is deposited on one of the platinum film by chemical method, while the other platinumfilm serves as a compensating element. The difference in the minimum reaction temperaturefor the catalytic oxidation of the combustible gas components of mixture by palladium sug-gests that it is possible to analyse such a gas mixture. The purpose of the study is to demon-strate that the sensor fabricated by this process has good sensing characteristics for hydrogenor carbon monoxide gas in the mixture of methane and ethane.
