title: Towards autonomous lab-on-a-chip devices for cell phone biosensing.
abstract: Modern cell phones are a ubiquitous resource with a residual capacity to accommodate chemical sensing and biosensing capabilities. From the different approaches explored to capitalize on such resource, the use of autonomous disposable lab-on-a-chip (LOC) devices-conceived as only accessories to complement cell phones-underscores the possibility to entirely retain cell phones' ubiquity for distributed biosensing. The technology and principles exploited for autonomous LOC devices are here selected and reviewed focusing on their potential to serve cell phone readout configurations. Together with this requirement, the central aspects of cell phones' resources that determine their potential for analytical detection are examined. The conversion of these LOC concepts into universal architectures that are readable on unaccessorized phones is discussed within this context.
authors.affiliation: Optical Devices Laboratory, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology-IFM, Linköping University, S-58183 Linköping, Sweden.
authors.forename: Germán
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Comina
authors.affiliation: Optical Devices Laboratory, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology-IFM, Linköping University, S-58183 Linköping, Sweden.
authors.forename: Anke
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Suska
authors.affiliation: Optical Devices Laboratory, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology-IFM, Linköping University, S-58183 Linköping, Sweden. Electronic address: danfi@ifm.liu.se.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Filippini
mesh_terms: D015374:Biosensing Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*; D040421:Cell Phone / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000639:trends; D004209:Disposable Equipment / Q000639:trends*; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D056656:Lab-On-A-Chip Devices / Q000639:trends*; D063731:Mobile Applications / Q000639:trends; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems / Q000639:trends*; D014584:User-Computer Interface
keywords: Autonomous lab-on-a-chip; Cell phone biosensing; Point-of-care