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Manual‐slide‐engaged paper chip for parallel SERS‐immunoassay measurement of clenbuterol from swine hair
Author(s) -
Zheng Tingting,
Gao Zhigang,
Luo Yong,
Liu Xianming,
Zhao Weijie,
Lin Bingcheng
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
electrophoresis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.666
H-Index - 158
eISSN - 1522-2683
pISSN - 0173-0835
DOI - 10.1002/elps.201500324
Subject(s) - analyte , immunoassay , microfluidics , microfluidic chip , chip , clenbuterol , nanotechnology , materials science , chromatography , computer science , chemistry , antibody , telecommunications , immunology , biology
Clenbuterol (CL), as a feed additive, has been banned in many countries due to its potential threat to human health. In detection of CL, a fast, low‐cost technique with high accuracy and specificity would be ideal for its administrative on‐field inspections. Among the attempts to pursue a reliable detection tool of CL, a technique that combines surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) and immunoassay, is close to meet the requirements as above. However, multiple steps of interactions between CL analyte, antibody, and antigen are involved in this method, and under conventional setup, the operation of SERS/immunoassay were unwieldy. In this paper, to facilitate a more manageable sample manipulation for SERS‐immunoassay measurement, a 3D paper chip was suggested. A switch‐on‐chip multilayered (abbreviated as SoCM‐) microfluidic paper‐based analysis device (μPad) was fabricated to provide operators with manual switches on the interactions between different microfluids. Besides, on a detection slip we made on the main body of our SoCM‐μPad, antigen was anchored in pattern. With this architecture, multistep interactions between the CL analyte in swine hair extract and the SERS probe‐modified antibody and antigen, were managed for on‐chip SERS‐immunoassay detection. This would be very attractive for fast, cheap, accurate, and on‐site specific detection of CL from real samples.