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Abstract
High-quality-factor (Q) optical microcavities have attracted extensive interest due to their unique ability to confine light for resonant circulation at the micrometer scale. Particular attention has been paid to optical whispering-gallery mode (WGM) microcavities to harness their strong light-matter interactions for biological applications. Remarkably, the combination of high-Q optical WGM microcavities with microfluidic technologies can achieve a synergistic effect in the development of high-sensitivity optofluidic sensors for many emerging biological analysis applications, such as the detection of proteins, nucleic acids, viruses, and exosomes. They can also be utilized to investigate the behavior of living cells in human organisms, which may provide new technical solutions for studies in cell biology and biophysics. In this paper, we briefly review recent progress in high-Q microcavity-based optofluidic sensor technologies and their applications in biological analysis.
期刊介绍:
Biomicrofluidics (BMF) is an online-only journal published by AIP Publishing to rapidly disseminate research in fundamental physicochemical mechanisms associated with microfluidic and nanofluidic phenomena. BMF also publishes research in unique microfluidic and nanofluidic techniques for diagnostic, medical, biological, pharmaceutical, environmental, and chemical applications.
BMF offers quick publication, multimedia capability, and worldwide circulation among academic, national, and industrial laboratories. With a primary focus on high-quality original research articles, BMF also organizes special sections that help explain and define specific challenges unique to the interdisciplinary field of biomicrofluidics.
Microfluidic and nanofluidic actuation (electrokinetics, acoustofluidics, optofluidics, capillary)
Liquid Biopsy (microRNA profiling, circulating tumor cell isolation, exosome isolation, circulating tumor DNA quantification)
Cell sorting, manipulation, and transfection (di/electrophoresis, magnetic beads, optical traps, electroporation)
Molecular Separation and Concentration (isotachophoresis, concentration polarization, di/electrophoresis, magnetic beads, nanoparticles)
Cell culture and analysis(single cell assays, stimuli response, stem cell transfection)
Genomic and proteomic analysis (rapid gene sequencing, DNA/protein/carbohydrate arrays)
Biosensors (immuno-assay, nucleic acid fluorescent assay, colorimetric assay, enzyme amplification, plasmonic and Raman nano-reporter, molecular beacon, FRET, aptamer, nanopore, optical fibers)
Biophysical transport and characterization (DNA, single protein, ion channel and membrane dynamics, cell motility and communication mechanisms, electrophysiology, patch clamping). Etc...