Paper Based Biosensor

This research aims to miniaturize sensing devices, reduce manufacturing costs, and improve analytical performance.

Recent Advances in Paper-Based Sensors [1]

• Paper Choices
• Fabrication and Patterning
• Quantitative Analysis
• Application of Paper-Based Sensors

Equipment-Free Detection of K+ [2]

• Overview

Paper-Based Sensors: Emerging Themes and Applications [3]

• Fabrication and Printing

Device Fabrication  processes

• Wax printing
• Wax dipping technique
• Screen printing the wax
• Inkjet printing
• Photolithography
• Laser cutting
• Polydimethyl-siloxane (PDMS)
• Hot embossing
• Hydrophobic silanization, and
• The use of origami- and kirigami-based approaches.

Novel, simple and low-cost alternative method for fabrication of paper-based microfluidics by wax dipping [4]

• Wax dipping technique

A low-cost, simple, and rapid fabrication method for paper-based microfluidics using wax screen-printing [5]

• Wax Screen-printing  

• D. D. Liana, B. Raguse, J. J. Gooding, and E. Chow, “Recent advances in paper-based sensors,” Sensors, vol. 12, no. 9, pp. 11505–11526, 2012, doi: 10.3390/s120911505
• Y. . Soda, D. Citterio, and E. Bakker, “Equipment-Free Detection of K+ on Microfluidic Paper-Based Analytical Devices Based on Exhaustive Replacement with Ionic Dye in Ion-selective Capillary Sensors,” ACS Sens., vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 670–677, Mar. 2019, doi: 10.1021/acssensors.8b01521
• E. Carrilho, A. W. Martinez, and G. M. Whitesides, “Understanding Wax Printing: A Simple Micropatterning Process for Paper-Based Microfluidics,” Anal. Chem., vol. 81, no. 16, pp. 7091–7095, Aug. 2009, doi: 10.1021/ac901071p
• Dungchai, W.; Chailapakul, O.; Henry, C.S. A low-cost, simple, and rapid fabrication method for paper-based microfluidics using wax screen-printing. Analyst 2011, 136, 77–82.
• Songjaroen, T.; Dungchai, W.; Chailapakul, O.; Laiwattanapaisal, W. Novel, simple and low-cost alternative method for fabrication of paper-based microfluidics by wax dipping. Talanta 2011, 85, 2587–2593.