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Review

Microfluidics Integrated Biosensors: A Leading Technology towards Lab-on-a-Chip and Sensing Applications

by
George Luka
1,
Ali Ahmadi
1,
Homayoun Najjaran
1,
Evangelyn Alocilja
2,
Maria DeRosa
3,
Kirsten Wolthers
1,
Ahmed Malki
4,
Hassan Aziz
4,
Asmaa Althani
4,5 and
Mina Hoorfar
1,*
1
School of Engineering, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7, Canada
2
Nano-Biosensors Laboratory, Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Michigan State University, 524 S. Shaw Lane, Room 115, East Lansing, MI 48224, USA
3
Carleton University, Department of Chemistry and Institute of Biochemistry, 225 Steacie Building 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
4
Department of Health Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, 2713 Doha, Qatar
5
Biomedical Research Center, Qatar University, 2713 Doha, Qatar
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sensors 2015, 15(12), 30011-30031; https://doi.org/10.3390/s151229783
Submission received: 22 May 2015 / Revised: 16 September 2015 / Accepted: 2 November 2015 / Published: 1 December 2015
(This article belongs to the Section Biosensors)
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Abstract

A biosensor can be defined as a compact analytical device or unit incorporating a biological or biologically derived sensitive recognition element immobilized on a physicochemical transducer to measure one or more analytes. Microfluidic systems, on the other hand, provide throughput processing, enhance transport for controlling the flow conditions, increase the mixing rate of different reagents, reduce sample and reagents volume (down to nanoliter), increase sensitivity of detection, and utilize the same platform for both sample preparation and detection. In view of these advantages, the integration of microfluidic and biosensor technologies provides the ability to merge chemical and biological components into a single platform and offers new opportunities for future biosensing applications including portability, disposability, real-time detection, unprecedented accuracies, and simultaneous analysis of different analytes in a single device. This review aims at representing advances and achievements in the field of microfluidic-based biosensing. The review also presents examples extracted from the literature to demonstrate the advantages of merging microfluidic and biosensing technologies and illustrate the versatility that such integration promises in the future biosensing for emerging areas of biological engineering, biomedical studies, point-of-care diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and precision agriculture.
Keywords: microfluidic; biosensor; lab-on-a-chip; microfluidic-based biosensor; micro total analysis systems (μTAS) microfluidic; biosensor; lab-on-a-chip; microfluidic-based biosensor; micro total analysis systems (μTAS)

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Luka, G.; Ahmadi, A.; Najjaran, H.; Alocilja, E.; DeRosa, M.; Wolthers, K.; Malki, A.; Aziz, H.; Althani, A.; Hoorfar, M. Microfluidics Integrated Biosensors: A Leading Technology towards Lab-on-a-Chip and Sensing Applications. Sensors 2015, 15, 30011-30031. https://doi.org/10.3390/s151229783

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Luka G, Ahmadi A, Najjaran H, Alocilja E, DeRosa M, Wolthers K, Malki A, Aziz H, Althani A, Hoorfar M. Microfluidics Integrated Biosensors: A Leading Technology towards Lab-on-a-Chip and Sensing Applications. Sensors. 2015; 15(12):30011-30031. https://doi.org/10.3390/s151229783

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Luka, George, Ali Ahmadi, Homayoun Najjaran, Evangelyn Alocilja, Maria DeRosa, Kirsten Wolthers, Ahmed Malki, Hassan Aziz, Asmaa Althani, and Mina Hoorfar. 2015. "Microfluidics Integrated Biosensors: A Leading Technology towards Lab-on-a-Chip and Sensing Applications" Sensors 15, no. 12: 30011-30031. https://doi.org/10.3390/s151229783

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Luka, G., Ahmadi, A., Najjaran, H., Alocilja, E., DeRosa, M., Wolthers, K., Malki, A., Aziz, H., Althani, A., & Hoorfar, M. (2015). Microfluidics Integrated Biosensors: A Leading Technology towards Lab-on-a-Chip and Sensing Applications. Sensors, 15(12), 30011-30031. https://doi.org/10.3390/s151229783

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