1. Poly(oligoethylene glycol methacrylate) dip-coating: turning cellulose paper into a protein-repellent platform for biosensors.
- Author
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Deng X, Smeets NM, Sicard C, Wang J, Brennan JD, Filipe CD, and Hoare T
- Subjects
- Adsorption, Animals, Biosensing Techniques instrumentation, Cattle, Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay instrumentation, Equipment Design, Porosity, Serum Albumin, Bovine isolation & purification, Cellulose chemistry, Methacrylates chemistry, Paper, Polyethylene Glycols chemistry, Proteins isolation & purification
- Abstract
The passivation of nonspecific protein adsorption to paper is a major barrier to the use of paper as a platform for microfluidic bioassays. Herein we describe a simple, scalable protocol based on adsorption and cross-linking of poly(oligoethylene glycol methacrylate) (POEGMA) derivatives that reduces nonspecific adsorption of a range of proteins to filter paper by at least 1 order of magnitude without significantly changing the fiber morphology or paper macroporosity. A lateral-flow test strip coated with POEGMA facilitates effective protein transport while also confining the colorimetric reporting signal for easier detection, giving improved performance relative to bovine serum albumin (BSA)-blocked paper. Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays based on POEGMA-coated paper also achieve lower blank values, higher sensitivities, and lower detection limits relative to ones based on paper blocked with BSA or skim milk. We anticipate that POEGMA-coated paper can function as a platform for the design of portable, disposable, and low-cost paper-based biosensors.
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- 2014
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