Smartphone-Based Point-of-Care Microfluidic Platform Fabricated with a ZnO Nanorod Template for Colorimetric Virus Detection

Yiqiu Xia, Yizhu Chen, Yeming Tang, Gong Cheng, Xu Yu, Hongzhang He, Guohong Cao, Huaguang Lu, Zhiwen Liu, Si Yang Zheng

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Abstract

Viruses pose serious infectious disease threats to humans and animals. To significantly decrease the mortality and morbidity caused by virus infections, there is an urgent need of sensitive and rapid point-of-care platforms for virus detection, especially in low-resource settings. Herein, we developed a smartphone-based point-of-care platform for highly sensitive and selective detection of the avian influenza virus based on nanomaterial-enabled colorimetric detection. The 3D nanostructures, which serve as a scaffold for antibody conjugation to capture the avian influenza virus, are made on PDMS herringbone structures with a ZnO nanorod template. After virus capture, the on-chip gold nanoparticle-based colorimetric reaction allows virus detection by naked eyes with a detection limit of 2.7 × 104 EID50/mL, which is one order of magnitude better than that of conventional fluorescence-based ELISA. Furthermore, a smartphone imaging system with data processing capability further improves the detection limit, reaching down to 8 × 103 EID50/mL. The entire virus capture and detection process can be completed in 1.5 h. We envision that this point-of-care microfluidic system integrated with smartphone imaging and colorimetric detection would provide a fast, cheap, sensitive, and user-friendly platform for virus detection in low-resource settings.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)3298-3307
Number of pages10
JournalACS Sensors
Volume4
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 27 2019

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Bioengineering
  • Instrumentation
  • Process Chemistry and Technology
  • Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes

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