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Development strategies of conducting polymer-based electrochemical biosensors for virus biomarkers: Potential for rapid COVID-19 detection

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BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS
Volume 182, Issue -, Pages -

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ELSEVIER ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2021.113192

Keywords

COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Electrochemical biosensor; Immuno-sensor; Conducting polymer

Funding

  1. Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Education [NRF-2019R1I1A1A01061532, NRF-2020R1I1A306849711]
  2. Basic Science Research Capacity Enhancement Project through the Korea Basic Science Institute (National Research Facilities and Equipment Center) grant - Ministry of Education

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CP-based electrochemical biosensors are considered as potential alternatives for COVID-19 detection due to their advantages such as rapid detection, low cost, and flexibility, but they still face challenges in application. The study provides scientific evidence for the potential applications of CP-based electrochemical biosensors in COVID-19 detection, proposing strategies to overcome existing problems.
Rapid, accurate, portable, and large-scale diagnostic technologies for the detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) are crucial for controlling the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The current standard technologies, i.e., reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction, serological assays, and computed tomography (CT) exhibit practical limitations and challenges in case of massive and rapid testing. Biosensors, particularly electrochemical conducting polymer (CP)-based biosensors, are considered as potential alternatives owing to their large advantages such as high selectivity and sensitivity, rapid detection, low cost, simplicity, flexibility, long self-life, and ease of use. Therefore, CP-based biosensors can serve as multisensors, mobile biosensors, and wearable biosensors, facilitating the development of point-of-care (POC) systems and home-use biosensors for COVID-19 detection. However, the application of these biosensors for COVID-19 entails several challenges related to their degradation, low crystallinity, charge transport properties, and weak interaction with biomarkers. To overcome these problems, this study provides scientific evidence for the potential applications of CP-based electrochemical biosensors in COVID-19 detection based on their applications for the detection of various biomarkers such as DNA/RNA, proteins, whole viruses, and antigens. We then propose promising strategies for the development of CP-based electrochemical biosensors for COVID-19 detection.

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