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Recent Advances in Batteryless NFC Sensors for Chemical Sensing and Biosensing

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BIOSENSORS-BASEL
卷 13, 期 8, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/bios13080775

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near-field communication (NFC); batteryless; potentiostat; electrochemical sensor; point-of-care; wireless RF energy harvesting; chipless sensor; green electronics

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This article reviews recent advances in batteryless NFC sensors for chemical and biosensing. The availability of low-cost NFC ICs and their integration in smartphones have sparked interest in new batteryless NFC sensors. The review compares NFC energy harvesting to other technologies, discusses power transfer, and presents the state of the art in NFC-based chemical and biosensors.
This article reviews the recent advances in the field of batteryless near-field communication (NFC) sensors for chemical sensing and biosensing. The commercial availability of low-cost commercial NFC integrated circuits (ICs) and their massive integration in smartphones, used as readers and cloud interfaces, have aroused great interest in new batteryless NFC sensors. The fact that coil antennas are not importantly affected by the body compared with other wireless sensors based on far-field communications makes this technology suitable for future wearable point-of-care testing (PoCT) devices. This review first compares energy harvesting based on NFC to other energy-harvesting technologies. Next, some practical recommendations for designing and tuning NFC-based tags are described. Power transfer is key because in most cases, the energy harvested has to be stable for several seconds and not contaminated by undesired signals. For this reason, the effect of the dimensions of the coils and the conductivity on the wireless power transfer is thoroughly discussed. In the last part of the review, the state of the art in NFC-based chemical and biosensors is presented. NFC-based tags (or sensor tags) are mainly based on commercial or custom NFC ICs, which are used to harvest the energy from the RF field generated by the smartphone to power the electronics. Low-consumption colorimeters and potentiostats can be integrated into these NFC tags, opening the door to the integration of chemical sensors and biosensors, which can be harvested and read from a smartphone. The smartphone is also used to upload the acquired information to the cloud to facilitate the internet of medical things (IoMT) paradigm. Finally, several chipless sensors recently proposed in the literature as a low-cost alternative for chemical applications are discussed.

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