Ultra-Fast Portable and Wearable Sensing Design for Continuous and Wide-Spectrum Molecular Analysis and Diagnostics

Adv Sci (Weinh). 2022 Dec;9(34):e2203693. doi: 10.1002/advs.202203693. Epub 2022 Oct 20.

Abstract

The design and characterization of spatiotemporal nano-/micro-structural arrangement that enable real-time and wide-spectrum molecular analysis is reported and demonestrated in new horizons of biomedical applications, such as wearable-spectrometry, ultra-fast and onsite biopsy-decision-making for intraoperative surgical oncology, chiral-drug identification, etc. The spatiotemporal sesning arrangement is achieved by scalable, binder-free, functionalized hybrid spin-sensitive (<↑| or <↓|) graphene-ink printed sensing layers on free-standing films made of porous, fibrous, and naturally helical cellulose networks in hierarchically stacked geometrical configuration (HSGC). The HSGC operates according to a time-space-resolved architecture that modulate the mass-transfer rate for separation, eluation and detection of each individual compound within a mixture of the like, hereby providing a mass spectrogram. The HSGC could be used for a wide range of applictions, including fast and real-time spectrogram generator of volatile organic compounds during liquid-biopsy, without the need of any immunochemistry-staining and complex power-hungry cryogenic machines; and wearable spectrometry that provide spectral signature of molecular profiles emiited from skin in the course of various dietry conditions.

Keywords: breast cancer; chiral molecules; hierarchical electronics; molecular analysis; sensors; spectromerty; volatile organic compound; wearable devices.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Immunochemistry*
  • Spectrum Analysis

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