Institute of Solid State Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, Anhui, China.
Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.
Anal Chem. 2023 Feb 21;95(7):3587-3595. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c03806. Epub 2023 Feb 8.
Visual wearable devices can rapid intuitively monitor biomarkers in body fluids to indicate the human health status and provide valuable reference for further medical diagnosis. However, unavoidable interference factors such as skin color, natural light, and background luminescence can interfere with the visualization accuracy of flexible wearable devices, limiting their practical sensing application. Here, we designed a wearable sensing patch via an embedded upconversion optical probe in a 3D porous polyacrylamide hydrogel, exhibiting a multiplex chroma response to urea based on the inner filter effect, which overcomes the susceptibility to external conditions due to its near-infrared excited luminescence and improves the resolution and accuracy of visual sensing. Furthermore, a highly compatible portable sensing platform combined with a smartphone was designed to achieve in situ rapid quantitative analysis of urea. The limit of detection values of the upconversion optical probe and hydrogel sensor are as low as 1.4 and 30 μM respectively, exhibiting the practicality in different scenarios. The designed sensing patch provides a convenient and accurate sensing strategy for the detection of biomarkers in body fluids and has the potential to be developed into a point-of-care device to provide disease early warning and clinical diagnosis.
可视化可穿戴设备可以快速直观地监测体液中的生物标志物,以指示人体健康状况,并为进一步的医学诊断提供有价值的参考。然而,皮肤颜色、自然光和背景发光等不可避免的干扰因素会干扰柔性可穿戴设备的可视化准确性,限制了其实际传感应用。在这里,我们设计了一种可穿戴传感贴片,通过在 3D 多孔聚丙烯酰胺水凝胶中嵌入上转换光学探针,基于内滤效应对基于尿素的多色响应,克服了由于近红外激发发光而对外界条件的敏感性,并提高了视觉传感的分辨率和准确性。此外,设计了一个高度兼容的便携式传感平台,结合智能手机,实现了对尿素的原位快速定量分析。上转换光学探针和水凝胶传感器的检测限分别低至 1.4 和 30 μM,在不同场景下均表现出实用性。设计的传感贴片为体液中生物标志物的检测提供了一种方便、准确的传感策略,有望开发成为一种即时检测设备,为疾病预警和临床诊断提供支持。