Paper Based Sensors

ICREA Research Professor and leader of the ICN2 Nanobioelectronics and Biosensors Group, Arben Merkoçi obtained his PhD at the University of Tirana (Albania) in ion selective electrodes. Since 1992 he has carried out research as postdoctoral fellow and research professor at the Polytechnic University of Budapest (Hungary), University of Ioannina (Greece), Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and New Mexico State University (USA). His research is focused on the integration of biological molecules and other species with micro- and nanostructures of interest in the design of novel (bio)sensors.Prof. Merkoçi is Co-Editor in Chief of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, the principal international journal devoted to research, design development and application of biosensors and bioelectronics, member of editorial board of Electroanalysis, Microchimica Acta and other journals.Prof. Merkoçi has published 305 articles (H-index / citations: Google Scholar 77 / 20908; WOS 63 / 15617) and supervised 30 PhD theses. He is also involved in teaching PhD courses in field of nanomaterial-based biosensors in several Spanish and international centres. He has been member of commission for establishing of the new Nanoscience and Nanotechnology undergraduate academic curricula at UAB, the first one in Spain started during the academic year 2010-2011. He is member of the Academics Working Group of BIST and coordinator of the Nanodiagnostics module of Nanotechnology Master of UAB. He has got several national and international grants related to nanomaterials application in biosensors and his group is collaborating with several worldwide leading labs in the field of nanobiosensors.Prof. Merkoçi serves also as scientific evaluator and member of panels of experts of various international governmental and nongovernmental agencies (FP EU including ERC panel, USA, various EU and other countries), member of scientific committee of various international congresses, director of several workshops and other scientific events and have been invited to give plenary lectures, keynote and invited speeches in more than 200 occasions in various countries. Prof. Merkoçi is the co-founder of two spin-off companies: GraphenicaLab, devoted to graphene patterning, and PaperDrop, to clinical diagnostics.

"The present volume is an excellent contribution to the field of sensors, in regard to those based on paper. The twelve chapters provide comprehensive state of the art of the field, including reinvented platforms such as those based on lateral flow assays as well as microfluidics. Issues related to the fabrication, the integration of various detection systems and the use of different techniques and innovative approaches as well as the main applications are covered in the volume. As stated in the preface: 'The recent COVID-19 pandemics is an evidence of the need of paper-based sensors. Thanks to their cost efficiency, these were between the few devices able to be distributed fast and in big quantities in various parts of the world…Still much work is needed to make paper-based sensors more sensitive and afford even multidetection and address real analytical application scenarios'. Reading this book is one of the motivating ways to start with!" --Springer"The present volume is an excellent contribution to the field of sensors, in regard to those based on paper. The twelve chapters provide comprehensive state of the art of the field, including reinvented platforms such as those based on lateral flow assays as well as microfluidics. Issues related to the fabrication, the integration of various detection systems and the use of different techniques and innovative approaches as well as the main applications are covered in the volume. As stated in the preface: “The recent COVID-19 pandemics is an evidence of the need of paper-based sensors. Thanks to their cost efficiency, these were between the few devices able to be distributed fast and in big quantities in various parts of the world...Still much work is needed to make paper-based sensors more sensitive and afford even multidetection and address real analytical application scenarios”. Reading this book is one of the motivating ways to start with!" --Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry

• PrefaceArben Merkoçi1. Exploring paper as a substrate for electrochemical micro-devicesPedro Victor Valadares Romanholo, Livia Florio Sgobbi and Emanuel Carrilho2. Paper-based sensors for the application of biological compound detectionOrawon Chailpakul, Weena Siangproh, Sakda Jampasa, Sudkate Chaiyo, Prinjaporn Teengam, Abdulhadee Yakoh and Chanika Pinyorospathum3. Printed paper-based (bio)sensors: Design, fabrication and applicationsFatima Mustafa, Abraham Samuel Finny, Kevin A. Kirk and Silvana Andreescu4. Paper-based electrochemical sensing devicesPatricia Batista Deroco, Juliana de Fátima Giarola, Dagwin Wachholz Júnior, Gustavo Arantes Lorga and Lauro Tatsuo Kubota5. Multifarious aspects of electrochemical paper-based (bio)sensorsFabiana Arduini and Danila Moscone6. Paper-based biosensors for clinical and biomedical applications: Emerging engineering concepts and challenges  Kuldeep Mahato, Buddhadev Purohit, Ashutosh Kumar and Pranjal Chandra7. Non-enzymatic lab-on-paper devices for biosensing applicationsAna Carolina Marques, Tomás Pinheiro, Gabriela V. Martins, Ana Rita Cardoso, Rodrigo Martins, Maria Goreti Sales and Elvira Fortunato8. High yield manufacture of lateral flow test strips: From the lab to the marketMichael A. Mansfield9. Nanopaper-based sensorsTina Naghdi, Hossein Yousefi, Amir Reza Sharifi and Hamed Golmohammadi10. Nanoparticle-based lateral flow assaysEnric Calucho, Claudio Parolo, Lourdes Rivas, Ruslan Álvarez-Diduk and Arben Merkoçi11. Flexible cellulose-based devices for monitoring physical parametersDieric dos Santos de Abreu, Mathias Strauss and Murilo Santhiago12. Integrated paper-based sensing devices for diagnostic applicationsAnna Brunauer, H. Ceren Ates, Can Dincer and Susanna M. Früh