Themed collection Sensors in a Digital World
Carbon-based electrochemical biosensors as diagnostic platforms for connected decentralized healthcare
Electrochemical biosensors: enabling rapid and cost-effective point-of-care (POC) diagnostics.
Sens. Diagn., 2023,2, 529-558
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SD00226D
70 years of bilirubin sensing: towards the point-of-care bilirubin monitoring in cirrhosis and hyperbilirubinemia
We provide a perspective on monitoring the blood bilirubin concentration using simple methods, which are economical and can be adopted in point of care settings. These are a homecare test system, a miniature implant, and a neonatal wearable patch.
Sens. Diagn., 2022,1, 932-954
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SD00033D
Advances in integrated digital microfluidic platforms for point-of-care diagnosis: a review
This work highlights recent advancements in the integration of analytical tools into DMF devices, and discusses the current challenges and potential solutions as well as future outlooks for an automated, integrative platform for POC applications.
Sens. Diagn., 2022,1, 648-672
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SD00031H
A novel point-of-care diagnostic prototype system for the simultaneous electrochemiluminescent sensing of multiple traumatic brain injury biomarkers
A new POC diagnostic prototype system for simultaneous detection of mTBI biomarkers based on a spatially resolved electrochemiluminescence immunoassay (SR-ECLIA).
Sens. Diagn., 2023,2, 964-975
https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SD00090G
Moving microcapillary antibiotic susceptibility testing (mcAST) towards the clinic: unravelling kinetics of detection of uropathogenic E. coli, mass-manufacturing and usability for detection of urinary tract infections in human urine
Point-of-care antibiotic susceptibility test for urinary tract infections.
Sens. Diagn., 2023,2, 736-750
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SD00138A
Noninvasive and point-of-care screening of snoring by breath monitoring using ion-in-conjugation polymer-based humidity sensors
We synthesized a noninvasive and point-of-care snoring sensor with comparable accuracy to commercial devices. The 1,5-PDAC-based humidity sensor exhibits a time stability up to 28 800 seconds (8 hours) in the working range of 11–95% RH.
Sens. Diagn., 2023,2, 721-725
https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SD00042G
Colorimetric determination of perfluorocarboxylic acids using porphyrin hosts and mobile phone photographs
Functionalized porphyrin molecules were found to change color in the presence of perfluorocarboxylic acids (PFCAs). The porphyrin molecules allow for simple visual- and color space-based detection of PFCAs across a range of concentrations.
Sens. Diagn., 2023,2, 676-686
https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SD00035D
Real-time, smartphone-based processing of lateral flow assays for early failure detection and rapid testing workflows
Herein we show that real-time analysis of lateral flow assays can be leveraged to detect test failures, decrease time-to-result, and improve testing throughput.
Sens. Diagn., 2023,2, 100-110
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SD00197G
On-chip integrated graphene aptasensor with portable readout for fast and label-free COVID-19 detection in virus transport medium
On-chip integrated graphene field-effect transistor (GFET)-based aptasensor was developed with portable readouts for sensitive and specific virus detection.
Sens. Diagn., 2022,1, 719-730
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SD00076H
Electrochemical methods for on-site multidrug detection at festivals
Two electrochemical methodologies, i.e. flowchart and dual-sensor, were developed to aid law enforcement present at festivals to obtain a rapid indication of the presence of four illicit drugs in suspicious samples encountered.
Sens. Diagn., 2022,1, 793-802
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SD00043A
From glow-sticks to sensors: single-electrode electrochemical detection for paper-based devices
A versatile biosensing platform based on a single electrode electrochemical system, paper-based devices and glow sticks.
Sens. Diagn., 2022,1, 496-503
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SD00041E
An integrated platform for metamaterial-based sensing and surface acoustic wave-based acoustofluidics utilising circular interdigital transducers
A key challenge in developing lab-on-a-chip devices is integrating various functionalities such as liquid manipulation and sensing on a single platform, which conventionally requires different technologies to be separately optimized.
Sens. Diagn., 2022,1, 270-279
https://doi.org/10.1039/D1SD00050K
About this collection
In 2022, the very first issue of Sensors & Diagnostics was published. Since then, the journal has published high-quality work from world-class researchers. In celebration of this, we wanted to showcase some of the very best work published by the journal in this post-publication collection.
Featuring a global cohort of authors, with topics ranging from carbon-based electrochemical sensors to polymer-based humidity sensors, we are proud to present some of the best papers published in the journal through the ‘Sensors in a Digital World’ collection.