Recent advances in microfluidic chip integrated electronic biosensors for multiplexed detection

Abstract

Utilizing biosensors for multiplexed detection can greatly increase analysis throughput and thus, the amount of information obtained in a single assay. The microfluidic chip, a type of micro-total analysis system (µTAS), has provided a necessary platform for portable and high-throughput biosensors. Biosensors and microfluidic chips are powerful individually, and their super combination is very meaningful for analytical especially for biological applications. In this paper, every kind of microfluidic-chip-integrated electronic biosensors including some emerging technologies for simultaneous detection of multiple analytes are reviewed. Different ways to reduce or avoid cross-talking and more efforts to achieve lab on chip multisensors were also introduced to help readers form a general idea of current developments in different angles.