Title
Plasmonic-magnetic nanorobots for SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection through electronic readout
Date Issued
01 June 2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
University of Chemistry and Technology Prague
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) has prompted an urgent demand for nanotechnological solutions towards the global healthcare crisis, particularly in the field of diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics. As an emerging tool for nanoscience and technology, micro/nanorobots have demonstrated advanced performances, such as self-propelling, precise maneuverability, and remote actuation, thus hold great potential to provide breakthroughs in the COVID-19 pandemic. Here we show a plasmonic-magnetic nanorobot-based simple and efficient COVID-19 detection assay through an electronic readout signal. The nanorobots consist of Fe3O4 backbone and the outer surface of Ag, that rationally designed to perform magnetic-powered propulsion and navigation, concomitantly the probe nucleic acids transport and release upon the hybridization which can be quantified with the differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) technique. The magnetically actuated nanorobots swarming enables enhanced micromixing and active targeting, thereby promoting binding kinetics. Experimental results verified the enhanced sensing efficiency, with nanomolar detection limit and high selectivity. Further testing with extracted SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA samples validated the clinical applicability of the proposed assay. This strategy is versatile to extend targeting various nucleic acids, thus it could be a promising detection tool for other emerging pathogens, environmental toxins, and forensic analytes.
Volume
27
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencias de la salud
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85124392912
Source
Applied Materials Today
Resource of which it is part
Applied Materials Today
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by the project “ Advanced Functional Nanorobots ” (Reg. No. CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000444 financed by the EFRR). We thank Petr Bednar for help with viral RNA isolation.
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