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Optical Fiber, Nanomaterial, and THz-Metasurface-Mediated Nano-Biosensors: A Review

Rahman, BMA; Viphavakit, C; Chitaree, R; Ghosh, S; Pathak, AK; Verma, S; Sakda, N; (2022) Optical Fiber, Nanomaterial, and THz-Metasurface-Mediated Nano-Biosensors: A Review. Biosensors , 12 (1) , Article 42. 10.3390/bios12010042. Green open access

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Abstract

The increasing use of nanomaterials and scalable, high-yield nanofabrication process are revolutionizing the development of novel biosensors. Over the past decades, researches on nanotechnology-mediated biosensing have been on the forefront due to their potential application in healthcare, pharmaceutical, cell diagnosis, drug delivery, and water and air quality monitoring. The advancement of nanoscale science relies on a better understanding of theory, manufacturing and fabrication practices, and the application specific methods. The topology and tunable properties of nanoparticles, a part of nanoscale science, can be changed by different manufacturing processes, which separate them from their bulk counterparts. In the recent past, different nanostructures, such as nanosphere, nanorods, nanofiber, core–shell nanoparticles, nanotubes, and thin films, have been exploited to enhance the detectability of labelled or label-free biological molecules with a high accuracy. Furthermore, these engineered-materials-associated transducing devices, e.g., optical waveguides and metasurface-based scattering media, widened the horizon of biosensors over a broad wavelength range from deep-ultraviolet to far-infrared. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the major scientific achievements in nano-biosensors based on optical fiber, nanomaterials and terahertz-domain metasurface-based refractometric, labelled and label-free nano-biosensors.

Type: Article
Title: Optical Fiber, Nanomaterial, and THz-Metasurface-Mediated Nano-Biosensors: A Review
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.3390/bios12010042
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.3390/bios12010042
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: optical fiber; nanomaterial; metasurface; biosensor
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10142410
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