Cited by 59Biosensors and Analytical DetectionElectrochemical sensors and biosensorsAdvanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials

Flexible Biosensors Based on Colorimetry, Fluorescence, and Electrochemistry for Point-of-Care Testing

Open access
Yan, Tingyi, Zhang, Guangyao, Chai, Huining, Qu, Lijun, Zhang, Xueji·2021·Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

Abstract

With the outbreak and pandemic of COVID-19, point-of-care testing (POCT) systems have been attracted much attention due to their significant advantages of small batches of samples, user-friendliness, easy-to-use and simple detection. Among them, flexible biosensors show practical significance as their outstanding properties in terms of flexibility, portability, and high efficiency, which provide great convenience for users. To construct highly functional flexible biosensors, abundant kinds of polymers substrates have been modified with sufficient properties to address certain needs. Paper-based biosensors gain considerable attention as well, owing to their foldability, lightweight and adaptability. The other important flexible biosensor employs textiles as substrate materials, which has a promising prospect in the area of intelligent wearable devices. In this feature article, we performed a comprehensive review about the applications of flexible biosensors based on the classification of substrate materials (polymers, paper and textiles), and illustrated the strategies to design effective and artificial sensing platforms, including colorimetry, fluorescence, and electrochemistry. It is demonstrated that flexible biosensors play a prominent role in medical diagnosis, prognosis, and healthcare.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.3389/fbioe.2021.753692

Cites

88 of 88 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Microfluidics technology has become prominent in wearable intelligent sensor platforms for reducing samples and solvents.

    “For reducing samples and solvents, microfluidics technology has become prominent in wearable intelligent sensor platforms [279,280,281].”

    From The Current State of Optical Sensors in Medical Wearables (2022) · cites this paper as [281]

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Yan, T., Zhang, G., Chai, H., Qu, L., & Zhang, X.
Affiliations
  • Qingdao University (CN)
  • Qingdao University of Technology (CN)
  • Shenzhen University (CN)
Corresponding author
  • Zhang, Guangyao
  • Qu, Lijun
Venue
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
Published
2021-09-28
Volume
9
Pages
753692-753692
ISSN
2296-4185 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3202222343
Cited by
59
References
88
Citations by year
2026: 9 · 2025: 14 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 1
FWCI
0.76
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2020QB092)
  • China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2021M691689)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Biosensors and Analytical Detection
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Electrochemical sensors and biosensors
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
Keywords
flexible biosensors, point-of-care testing, colorimetric sensing, fluorescence sensing, electrochemical sensing, paper-based biosensor, textile substrates, wearable devices, polymer substrates, COVID-19 diagnosis, diagnosis

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review