Optical Fiber Gratings Immunoassays

Optical fibers are of growing interest for biosensing, especially for point-of-care and biomedical assays. Their intrinsic properties bestow them sought-after assets for the detection of low concentrations of analytes. Tilted fiber Bragg gratings (TFBGs) photo-inscribed in the core of telecommunication-grade optical fibers are known to be highly-sensitive refractometers. In this work, we present different strategies to use them for label-free immunoassays. Bare, gold-sputtered, gold-electroless-plated (ELP) and hybrid configurations are biofunctionalized with antibodies, aiming at the detection of cancer biomarkers. We discuss the relative performances of the tested configurations and show that each leads to singular key features, which therefore drives their selection as a function of the target application. The most sensitive configuration presents a limit of detection of 10-12 g/mL in laboratory settings and was successfully used ex vivo in freshly resected lung tissues.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:19

Enthalten in:

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) - 19(2019), 11 vom: 07. Juni

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Loyez, Médéric [VerfasserIn]
Lobry, Maxime [VerfasserIn]
Wattiez, Ruddy [VerfasserIn]
Caucheteur, Christophe [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Biomarker
Biomarkers, Tumor
Biosensing
Immunoassays
Journal Article
Optical fibers
Tilted fiber bragg gratings

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Date Completed 02.12.2019

Date Revised 25.02.2020

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/s19112595

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM297986856