Sensor Surface Design with NanoMaterials: A New Platform in the Diagnosis of COVID-19

Eliete A. Alvin, Anna Victoria Bernardes E Borges, Rheltheer De P. Martins, Marcela R. Lemes, Rafaela M. Barbosa, Carlo J.F. de Oliveira, Diogenes Meneses, Bruno G. Lucca, Noelio Oliveira O. Dantas, Virmondes Rodrigues Junior, Renata Balvedi, Fabiane C. de Abreu, Marcos V. da Silva and Anielle Christine A. Almeida Silva

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Abstract: Mass testing for COVID-19 is essential to defining patient management strategies, choosing the best clinical management, and dimensioning strategies for controlling viral dissemination and immunization strategies. Thus, it is of utmost importance to search for devices that allow a quick and reliable diagnosis of low cost that can be transposed from the bench to the bedside, such as biosensors. These devices can help choose the correct clinical management to minimize factors that lead to infected patients developing more severe diseases. The use of nanomaterials to modify biosensors' surfaces to increase these devices' sensitivity and their biofunctionality enables high-quality nanotechnological platforms. In addition to the diagnostic benefits, nanotechnological platforms that facilitate the monitoring of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies may be the key to determining loss of protective immune response after an episode of COVID-19, which leads to a possible chance of reinfection, as well as how they can be used to assess and monitor the success of immunization strategies, which are beginning to be administered on a large scale and that the extent and duration of their protection will need to be determined. Therefore, in this chapter, we will cover nanomaterials' use and their functionalities in the surface design of sensors, thus generating nanotechnological platforms in the various facets of the diagnosis of COVID-19.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; nanotechnological platforms; nanomaterials; biosensors; diagnosis; sensor surface design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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