Journal of Inorganic Materials ›› 2023, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (1): 3-31.DOI: 10.15541/jim20220218

• Topical Section: Anti-epidemic Biomaterials (Contributing Editor: YANG Yong) • Previous Articles     Next Articles

Nanomaterials and Biosensing Technology for the SARS-CoV-2 Detection

LI Yanyan1,2(), PENG Yusi1,2, LIN Chenglong1,2, LUO Xiaoying3, TENG Zheng4(), ZHANG Xi4, HUANG Zhengren1,2, YANG Yong1,2()   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
    2. College of Materials Science and Opto-Electronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
    3. State Key Laboratory of Oncogenes and Related Genes, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200032, China
    4. Shanghai Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai 200336, China
  • Received:2022-04-12 Revised:2022-05-03 Published:2022-06-22 Online:2022-06-22
  • Contact: YANG Yong, professor. E-mail: yangyong@mail.sic.ac.cn;
    TENG Zheng, professor. E-mail: tengzheng@scdc.sh.cn
  • About author:LI Yanyan (1997-), female, PhD candidate. E-mail: liyanyan20@mails.ucas.ac.cn
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(52172167);National Key R&D Program of China(2021YFE011305)

Abstract:

The outbreak of corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has aroused great attention around the world. SARS-CoV-2 possesses characteristics of faster transmission, immune escape, and occult transmission by many mutation, which caused still grim situation of prevention and control. Early detection and isolation of patients are still the most effective measures at present. So, there is an urgent need for new rapid and highly sensitive testing tools to quickly identify infected patients as soon as possible. This review briefly introduces general characteristics of SARS-CoV-2, and provides recentl overview and analysis based on different detection methods for nucleic acids, antibodies, antigens as detection target. Novel nano-biosensors for SARS-CoV-2 detection are analyzed based on optics, electricity, magnetism, and visualization. In view of the advantages of nanotechnology in improving detection sensitivity, specificity and accuracy, the research progress of new nano-biosensors is introduced in detail, including SERS-based biosensors, electrochemical biosensors, magnetic nano-biosensors and colorimetric biosensors. Functions and challenges of nano-materials in construction of new nano-biosensors are discussed, which provides ideas for the development of various coronavirus biosensing technologies for nanomaterial researchers.

Key words: SARS-CoV-2, detection method, nucleic acid, antibody, antigen, nanomaterial, biosensor, review

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