用于新型冠状病毒检测的纳米材料及生物传感技术

新型冠状病毒肺炎(Corona Virus Disease 2019, COVID-19)疫情大流行引起全球对此重大突发公共卫生事件的高度关注。新型冠状病毒(SARS-CoV-2)经过多次突变,出现传染速度加快、免疫逃逸、隐匿性传播等特性,令防控形势至今仍异常严峻。对患者的早发现、早隔离仍然是目前最有效的防控措施。因此,迫切需要快速、高灵敏的检测手段来甄别此病毒,以便及早识别感染者。本文简要介绍了SARS-CoV-2的一般特征,并针对核酸、抗体、抗原及病原体作为检测靶标的不同检测手段及最新进展进行分类概述;对一些光学、电学、磁学以及可视化的新型纳米传感器在SARS-CoV-2检测技术上的应用进行了分析。鉴于纳米技术的应用在提高检测灵敏度、特异性以及准确率上具有优势,本文详细介绍了新型纳米传感器在SARS-CoV-2检测中的研究进展,包括表面增强拉曼基生物传感器、电化学生物传感器、磁纳米生物传感器以及比色生物传感器等,并探讨了纳米材料在新型生物传感器构建中的作用和挑战,为纳米材料研究人员开发各种类型的冠状病毒传感技术提供思路。

Nanomaterials and Biosensing Technology for the SARS-CoV-2 Detection

The outbreak of corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has aroused great attention around the world. SARS-CoV-2 possesses characteristics of faster transmission, immune escape, and occult transmission by many mutation, which caused still grim situation of prevention and control. Early detection and isolation of patients are still the most effective measures at present. So, there is an urgent need for new rapid and highly sensitive testing tools to quickly identify infected patients as soon as possible. This review briefly introduces general characteristics of SARS-CoV-2, and provides recentl overview and analysis based on different detection methods for nucleic acids, antibodies, antigens as detection target. Novel nano-biosensors for SARS-CoV-2 detection are analyzed based on optics, electricity, magnetism, and visualization. In view of the advantages of nanotechnology in improving detection sensitivity, specificity and accuracy, the research progress of new nano-biosensors is introduced in detail, including SERS-based biosensors, electrochemical biosensors, magnetic nano-biosensors and colorimetric biosensors. Functions and challenges of nano-materials in construction of new nano-biosensors are discussed, which provides ideas for the development of various coronavirus biosensing technologies for nanomaterial researchers.