Liposomes and lipid bilayers in biosensors
Review article, 2017

Biosensors for the rapid, specific, and sensitive detection of analytes play a vital role in healthcare, drug discovery, food safety, and environmental monitoring. Although a number of sensing concepts and devices have been developed, many longstanding challenges to obtain inexpensive, easy-to-use, and reliable sensor platforms remain largely unmet. Nanomaterials offer exciting possibilities for enhancing the assay sensitivity and for lowering the detection limits down to single-molecule resolution. In this review, we present an overview of liposomes and lipid bilayers in biosensing applications. Lipid assemblies in the form of spherical liposomes or two-dimensional planar membranes have been widely used in the design of biosensing assays; in particular, we highlight a number of recent promising developments of biosensors based on liposomes in suspension, liposome arrays, and lipid bilayers arrays. Assay sensitivity and specificity are discussed, advantages and drawbacks are reviewed, and possible further developments are outlined.

Lipid bilayer

Array

Biosensor

Liposome

Biomarker

Author

Federico Mazur

The University of Sydney

Marta Bally

Chalmers, Physics, Biological Physics

Brigitte Städler

Aarhus University

Rona Chandrawati

The University of Sydney

Advances in Colloid and Interface Science

0001-8686 (ISSN)

Vol. 249 88-99

Subject Categories

Other Engineering and Technologies

DOI

10.1016/j.cis.2017.05.020

PubMed

28602208

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