Emerging and Disruptive Next-Generation Technologies for POC: Sensors, Chemistry and Microfluidics for Diagnostics

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: 3D microfluidics; alternating current electroluminescent devices; amniotic epithelial cells; amperometric biosensor; biodetection; Biology, life sciences; body fluids; circulating tumor cells; cornea regeneration; diagnostic tool; fetal stem cells; glucose; glucose oxidase; isolation protocol; label-free sorting; light electrochemical cells; light emitting diodes; light-emitting e-textiles; Mathematics and Science; microfabrication; micromixers; molecular mechanisms; n/a; nanotechnology; oral cancer; plastic microfluidics; polymeric optical fibers; quality control; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; sweat; tissue engineering; wearable sensor
• ISBN: 9783036534169; 9783036534152; 3036534164; 3036534156
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-3415-2

Recently, the attention paid to self-care tests and the easy and large screening of a high number of people has dramatically increased. Indeed, easy and affordable tools for the safe management of biological fluids together with self-diagnosis have emerged as compulsory requirements in this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, to lighten the pressure on public healthcare institutions and thus limiting the diffusion of infections. Obviously, other kinds of pathologies (cancer or other degenerative diseases) also continue to require attention, with progressively earlier and more widespread diagnoses. The contribution to the development of this research field comes from the areas of innovative plastic and 3D microfluidics, smart chemistry and the integration of miniaturized sensors, going in the direction of improving the performances of in vitro diagnostic (IVD) devices. In our Special Issue, we include papers describing easy strategies to identify diseases at the point-of-care and near-the-bed levels, but also dealing with innovative biomarkers, sample treatments, and chemistry processes which, in perspective, represent promising tools to be applied in the field.