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Opportunities and Challenges for Biosensors and Nanoscale Analytical Tools for Pandemics: COVID-19
- Source :
- ACS Nano
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- American Chemical Society (ACS), 2020.
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Abstract
- Biosensors and nanoscale analytical tools have shown huge growth in literature in the past 20 years, with a large number of reports on the topic of ‘ultrasensitive’, ‘cost-effective’, and ‘early detection’ tools with a potential of ‘mass-production’ cited on the web of science. Yet none of these tools are commercially available in the market or practically viable for mass production and use in pandemic diseases such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In this context, we review the technological challenges and opportunities of current bio/chemical sensors and analytical tools by critically analyzing the bottlenecks which have hindered the implementation of advanced sensing technologies in pandemic diseases. We also describe in brief COVID-19 by comparing it with other pandemic strains such as that of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) for the identification of features that enable biosensing. Moreover, we discuss visualization and characterization tools that can potentially be used not only for sensing applications but also to assist in speeding up the drug discovery and vaccine development process. Furthermore, we discuss the emerging monitoring mechanism, namely wastewater-based epidemiology, for early warning of the outbreak, focusing on sensors for rapid and on-site analysis of SARS-CoV2 in sewage. To conclude, we provide holistic insights into challenges associated with the quick translation of sensing technologies, policies, ethical issues, technology adoption, and an overall outlook of the role of the sensing technologies in pandemics.
- Subjects :
- sewage sensors
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Process (engineering)
Computer science
Pneumonia, Viral
microfluidics
General Physics and Astronomy
Context (language use)
Biosensing Techniques
Review
02 engineering and technology
pandemics
010402 general chemistry
01 natural sciences
Betacoronavirus
Pandemic
Humans
Nanotechnology
General Materials Science
afm
atomic force microscopy
poct-devices
sewage-sensors
electron microscopy
Ethical issues
Warning system
xrd
SARS-CoV-2
Mechanism (biology)
General Engineering
COVID-19
nanoplasmonics
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Data science
X-ray diffraction
point-of-care-technologies
0104 chemical sciences
Identification (information)
covid-19
Contact Tracing
Coronavirus Infections
0210 nano-technology
electron-microscopy
nanosensors
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1936086X and 19360851
- Volume :
- 14
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- ACS Nano
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7589d273cc82d5eb4bc3da133f427eb8