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Rapid detection of pathogens using lyotropic liquid crystals
Year:2019
Research Areas
  • Optics, electromagnetism
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Abstract
Lyotropic liquid crystals play an important role in many biological environments, such as micelles, liposomes, and phospholipid bilayers of cell membranes. In this work, we explore the performance of lyotropic liquid crystals as biosensors for macromolecules, proteins and whole microorganisms in hydrophilic media, i.e., the natural media where these specimens exist. The aim is to detect specific targets employing simple, unpowered sensors that can be used in the field, with minimum additional equipment. A number of different structures have been explored. The novelty in this work is the inclusion of a new optical effect, flow enhanced amplification, that allows for the semiquantitative detection of microscopic targets in lyotropic liquid crystal cells using the naked eye only.
International
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JCR
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Title
Optics Express
ISBN
1094-4087
Impact factor JCR
3,356
Impact info
Datos JCR del año 2017
Volume
27
10.1364/OE.27.010098
Journal number
7
From page
10098
To page
10107
Month
SIN MES
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Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Grupo de Fotónica Aplicada
  • Departamento: Tecnología Fotónica y Bioingeniería