Sokolov, P.; Samokhvalov, P.; Sukhanova, A.; Nabiev, I. Biosensors Based on Inorganic Composite Fluorescent Hydrogels. Nanomaterials2023, 13, 1748.
Sokolov, P.; Samokhvalov, P.; Sukhanova, A.; Nabiev, I. Biosensors Based on Inorganic Composite Fluorescent Hydrogels. Nanomaterials 2023, 13, 1748.
Sokolov, P.; Samokhvalov, P.; Sukhanova, A.; Nabiev, I. Biosensors Based on Inorganic Composite Fluorescent Hydrogels. Nanomaterials2023, 13, 1748.
Sokolov, P.; Samokhvalov, P.; Sukhanova, A.; Nabiev, I. Biosensors Based on Inorganic Composite Fluorescent Hydrogels. Nanomaterials 2023, 13, 1748.
Abstract
Fluorescent hydrogels are promising candidate materials for portable biosensors to be used in point-of-care diagnosis because (1) they have a greater capacity for binding organic molecules than immunochromatographic test systems, determined by the immobilization of affinity labels within the three-dimensional hydrogel structure; (2) fluorescent detection is more sensitive than the colorimetric detection of gold nanoparticles or stained latex microparticles; (3) the properties of the gel matrix can be finely tuned for better compatibility and detection of different analytes; and (4) hydrogel biosensors can be made reusable and suitable for studying dynamic processes in real time. Water-soluble fluorescent nanocrystals are widely used for in vitro and in vivo biological imaging due to their unique optical properties, and hydrogels based on them allow preserving these properties in bulk composite macrostructures. Here we review the techniques for obtaining analyte-sensitive fluorescent hydrogels based on nanocrystals, the main methods used for detecting the fluorescent signal changes, and the approaches to the formation of inorganic fluorescent hydrogels via sol–gel phase transition using surface ligands of the nanocrystals.
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