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Direct optical sensors: principles and selected applications

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In the field of bio and chemosensors a large number of detection principles has been published within the last decade. These detection principles are based either on the observation of fluorescence-labelled systems or on direct optical detection in the heterogeneous phase. Direct optical detection can be measured by remission (absorption of reflected radiation, opt(r)odes), by measuring micro-refractivity, or measuring interference. In the last case either Mach–Zehnder interferometers or measurement of changes in the physical thickness of the layer (measuring micro-reflectivity) caused, e.g., by swelling effects in polymers (due to interaction with analytes) or in bioassays (due to affinity reactions) also play an important role. Here, an overview of methods of microrefractometric and microreflectometric principles is given and benefits and drawbacks of the various approaches are demonstrated using samples from the chemo and biosensor field. The quality of sensors does not just depend on transduction principles but on the total sensor system defined by this transduction, the sensitive layer, data acquisition electronics, and evaluation software. The intention of this article is, therefore, to demonstrate the essentials of the interaction of these parts within the system, and the focus is on optical sensing using planar transducers, because fibre optical sensors have been reviewed in this journal only recently. Lack of selectivity of chemosensors can be compensated either by the use of sensor arrays or by evaluating time-resolved measurements of analyte/sensitive layer interaction. In both cases chemometrics enables the quantification of analyte mixtures. These data-processing methods have also been successfully applied to antibody/antigen interactions even using cross-reactive antibodies. Because miniaturisation and parallelisation are essential approaches in recent years, some aspects and current trends, especially for bio-applications, will be discussed. Miniaturisation is especially well covered in the literature.

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For long years of support of his research the author has to thank the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Fond der Chemischen Industrie, the BMBF, the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Industrieller Forschung, the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, some European funding and much industrial cooperation. Details of the funding is acknowledged in the different publications cited. The author also wants to thank all his coworkers, cited and not cited, for work achieved, and, especially, Dr Martin Mehlmann for checking the manuscript.

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Gauglitz, G. Direct optical sensors: principles and selected applications. Anal Bioanal Chem 381, 141–155 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-004-2895-4

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