{"title":"A Nanoporous Alumina Membrane Based Impedance Biosensor for Histamine Detection with Magnetic Nanoparticles Separation and Amplification","authors":"W.W. Ye , Y.T. Ding , Y. Sun , F. Tian , M. Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.051","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.051","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Seafood, especially red fish is rich in histidine, which is essential for infants and adults. With fish freshness decline or spoilage, enzyme catalysis or microorganisms cause decarbonylation of histidine to form histamine, which threatens human body by dietary and affects allergic and inflammatory reaction. Current histamine assay needs complex operation, numerous steps, and time-consuming. In this study, a functionalized nanoporous alumina membrane was used to construct a rapid and highly sensitive impedance biosensor with magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) for target molecule pre-concentration and separation. When the functionalized MNPs accumulated histamine, they were separated by magnetism from samples and added to the anti-histamine antibody modified nanoporous alumina membrane causing blocking effect in the nanopores by immune reaction. Impedance increased as histamine concentrations increased from 1 μM to 40 mM. The limit of detection was as low as several micromolar. The biosensor provides a novel, highly sensitive and specific sensing mechanism and constructs a new technology and method for justifying seafood freshness to prevent toxic reaction in human body. It is a new approach for food quality safety control.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101042,"journal":{"name":"Procedia Technology","volume":"27 ","pages":"Pages 116-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.051","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73046997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Huet , M. Cubizolles , P. Pouteau , V. Poher , A. Buhot
{"title":"D-dimer Quantification from Autologous Red Blood Cells Agglutination by a Lens-free Imaging Device","authors":"M. Huet , M. Cubizolles , P. Pouteau , V. Poher , A. Buhot","doi":"10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.073","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.073","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Quantification of biomarkers closest to the patient remains an impressive challenge for the development of personalized medicine. The detection of D-dimer, a fibrin degradation product, indicative of deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism or stroke is a particular biomarker of interest. In this study, we developed a quantitative assay based on the measurement of autologous red blood cells agglutination by a lens-free device. An indicator, obtained from the shape of the gray level histogram of the images, allows us for a linear quantification of D-dimer opening the door for a Point-of-Care device.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101042,"journal":{"name":"Procedia Technology","volume":"27 ","pages":"Pages 167-168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.073","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78073420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inhibition Biosensor Based on DC and AC Electrical Measurements of Bacteria Samples","authors":"H. Abu-Ali , A. Nabok , T. Smith , M. Al-Shanawa","doi":"10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.056","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.056","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The main idea of this project is to utilise microorganisms (bacteria) as sensing elements in the inhibition type biosensors for detection of heavy metals and pesticides which are dissolved in water. This work focuses on developing novel, cost-effective sensing technologies for detection of environmental pollutions. Two types of bacteria (<em>E. coli and S. oneidensis</em>) which are inhibited by heavy metals were used in this work. The bacteria density or concentration was characterised first with optical techniques of fluorescence microscopy, optical density OD600, and flow cytometry. Then a series of electrochemical measurements were carried out on the same bacteria samples. The study of the effect of heavy metals on the above bacteria revealed a possibility of pattern recognition of the above pollutants.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101042,"journal":{"name":"Procedia Technology","volume":"27 ","pages":"Pages 129-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.056","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75440669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V.H. Nguyen , S. Richert , H. Park , A. Böker , U. Schnakenberg
{"title":"Single Interdigital Transducer as Surface Acoustic Wave Impedance Sensor","authors":"V.H. Nguyen , S. Richert , H. Park , A. Böker , U. Schnakenberg","doi":"10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.032","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.032","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices are well-known for gravimetric sensor applications. In biosensing applications, chemical- and biochemically evoked adsorption processes at surfaces are detected in liquid environments using delay-line or resonator sensor configurations, preferably in combination with appropriate microfluidic devices. In this paper, a novel SAW-based impedance sensor type is introduced which uses only one interdigital electrode transducer (IDT) simultaneously as SAW generator and sensor element. It is shown that the amplitude of the reflected S<sub>11</sub> signal directly depends on the input impedance of the SAW device. The input impedance is strongly influenced by mass adsorption which causes a characteristic and measurable impedance mismatch.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101042,"journal":{"name":"Procedia Technology","volume":"27 ","pages":"Pages 70-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73216172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yuxiang Pan , Jie Zhou , Kaiqi Su , Ning Hu , Ping Wang
{"title":"A Novel Quantum Dot Fluorescence Immunosensor Based on Magnetic Beads and Portable Flow Cytometry for Detection of Okadaic Acid","authors":"Yuxiang Pan , Jie Zhou , Kaiqi Su , Ning Hu , Ping Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.090","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.090","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Okadaic acid (OA) is a representative diarrhetic shellfish poisoning toxin which is highly toxic and carcinogenic to human, and rich in polluted shellfish. In this work, a novel and high sensitive fluorescence immunosensor based on magnetic beads (MBs) and quantum dots (QDs) had been developed for OA detection. Carboxylic acid modified MBs were used as supporter to immobilize the OA-BSA, competed with the OA in the sample solution to bind with the anti-OA monoclonal antibody (OA-MAb). The CdTe QDs (EX600 nm) labeled IgG was served as secondary antibody to perform fluorescence detection. A portable flow cytometry, Moxi Flow was applied for OA on-site quantification. The results showed that the OA concentration was inversely proportional to the QDs fluorescence intensity. The limit of detection (LOD) was 0.05 μg/L with a linear range of 0.2–20 μg/L for OA detection, which was far lower than traditional id-ELISA strategy. Moreover, OA detection for the real sample could be completed within 1 hour. The matrix effect and the recovery rate were also assessed during real sample measurement, showing a high recovery.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101042,"journal":{"name":"Procedia Technology","volume":"27 ","pages":"Pages 214-216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.090","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74269865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rapid Detection of Prostate Specific Antigen Biomarker Using Magnetic-Nanoparticles","authors":"Ghadeer Suaifan , Mohammed Zourob","doi":"10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.054","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.054","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Prostate carcinoma is the most common leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men, aside from lung cancer. To date, proteolytically-active prostate specific antigen (PSA) serine protease is a useful diagnostic serological marker for the early diagnosis and monitoring of prostate cancer. In the past years, researchers executed a lot of research to increase the utility and applicability of PSA detection methods. However, these methods were usually frustrated by limitation in sensitivity, specificity, times constrains and ease of on-site application. Thus, there is a need for novel direct and highly sensitive PSA detection methods. This work showed the ability of the developed electrochemical and optical (Surface Plasmin Resonance (SPR) and colorimetric) biosensors to detect PSA with high sensitivity and specificity and within a short timing. Moreover, these novel approaches can be implemented in other miniaturized configurations such as screen printed electrode and paper-based low-cost point-of-care biosensor due to the elimination of washing and blocking steps as well as the amplification and labelling procedure.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101042,"journal":{"name":"Procedia Technology","volume":"27 ","pages":"Pages 122-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.054","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80473666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pavel Ivanoff Reyes , Keyang Yang , Andrew Zheng , Rui Li , Guangyuan Li , Yicheng Lu , Chi Kwan Tsang , Steven X.F. Zheng
{"title":"Magnesium Zinc Oxide Nanostructure-modified Quartz Crystal Microbalance for Dynamic Monitoring of Antibiotic Effects and Antimicrobial Resistance","authors":"Pavel Ivanoff Reyes , Keyang Yang , Andrew Zheng , Rui Li , Guangyuan Li , Yicheng Lu , Chi Kwan Tsang , Steven X.F. Zheng","doi":"10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.022","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.022","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We demonstrate a magnesium zinc oxide (MZO) nanostructure-modified quartz crystal microbalance (MZO<sub>nano</sub>-QCM) biosensor to dynamically monitor antimicrobial effects on <em>E. coli</em> and <em>S. cerevisiae.</em> The MZO nanostructures were grown on the top electrode of a standard QCM using metal-organic chemical-vapor deposition (MOCVD). The MZO nanostructures are utilized as the sensing material due to their multifunctionality, biocompatibility, and very large effective sensing surface. The MZO surface-wettability and morphology are controlled, offering high-sensitivity to various biological/biochemical species. The MZO<sub>nano</sub>-QCM was applied to detect the effects of ampicillin and tetracycline on sensitive and resistant strains of <em>E.coli</em>, as well as effects of amphotericin-B and miconazole on <em>S. cerevisiae</em> through the device's time-dependent frequency shift and motional resistance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101042,"journal":{"name":"Procedia Technology","volume":"27 ","pages":"Pages 46-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87140412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Rendon-Morales, R. Prance, H. Prance, R. Aviles-Espinosa
{"title":"A Novel Non-invasive Biosensor Based on Electric Field Detection for Cardio-electrophysiology in Zebrafish Embryos","authors":"E. Rendon-Morales, R. Prance, H. Prance, R. Aviles-Espinosa","doi":"10.1016/J.PROTCY.2017.04.103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/J.PROTCY.2017.04.103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":101042,"journal":{"name":"Procedia Technology","volume":"14 1","pages":"242-243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90289279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Small Molecule SPR Imaging Detection from Split Aptamer Microarrays","authors":"Feriel Melaine , Yoann Roupioz , Arnaud Buhot","doi":"10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The small molecules detection remains a challenge for diagnostics. Due to their size, difficulties arise in finding selective and sensitive probes as well as developing appropriate detection format based on sandwich and/or signal amplification assays. In this study, we combine multiple strategies: a) the use of aptamer probes, short oligonucleotides strands selected in order to present strong selectivity for the small molecule target, b) the sequence engineering of split versions of the aptamer for a sandwich assay and c) the amplification of Surface Plasmon Resonance imaging (SPRi) signal by the use of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs). Combining those three strategies lead to state-of-the-art limit of detection (LOD = 50 nM) for the adenosine target.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101042,"journal":{"name":"Procedia Technology","volume":"27 ","pages":"Pages 6-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87460398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Liangxing Hu , Nan Wang , Jianmin Miao , Gerhard Grüber
{"title":"Investigation of Temperature Dependency on the Propulsion of Disk-like Nanoswimmers","authors":"Liangxing Hu , Nan Wang , Jianmin Miao , Gerhard Grüber","doi":"10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.023","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.023","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Flight vehicles can soar around Earth via ejecting the combusted gases in the space and bio-molecular motor proteins possess the ability to walk along the tracts through hydrolyzing adenosine triphosphate (ATP) in cells. Inspired by flight vehicles and naturally occurring bio-molecular protein motors, miniaturized disk-like nanoswimmers are proposed, which are composed of three different metals: gold (Au), nickel (Ni), and platinum (Pt). The proposed nanoswimmers are fabricated via a layer-by-layer deposition method base on nano-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS) technology, whereby Pt functions as the chemical catalyst for the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide (H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>) to produce oxygen (O<sub>2</sub>) bubbles detaching from its surface, which in turn generate recoil force to thrust nanoswimmers propelling forward. Herein, bubble propulsion mechanism originating from momentum change of a Au-Ni-Pt nanoswimmer-O<sub>2</sub> bubble integral system is proposed to investigate the propulsion of nanoswimmers. Experiments are mainly focused on characterizing the propulsion of nanoswimmers in diluted H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> by changing the temperature of the solution. Results show that Au-Ni-Pt nanoswimmers are able to propel forward while the generated O<sub>2</sub> bubbles are detached from the Pt-surface. The speeds of nanoswimmers are increased with the increment of temperature varying from 7<!--> <!-->°C to 57<!--> <!-->°C. It is concluded that the propulsion of nanoswimmers is temperature-dependent.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101042,"journal":{"name":"Procedia Technology","volume":"27 ","pages":"Pages 48-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.protcy.2017.04.023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76916022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}