4. Biosensors Based on Cantilevers
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Microcantilevers based-biosensors are a new label-free technique that allows the direct detection of biomolecular interactions
in a label-less way and with great accuracy by translating the biointeraction into a nanomechanical motion. Low cost and reliable
standard silicon technologies are widely used for the fabrication of cantilevers with well-controlled mechanical properties.
Over the last years, the number of applications of these sensors has shown a fast growth in diverse fields, such as genomic
or proteomic, because of the biosensor flexibility, the low sample consumption, and the non-pretreated samples required. In
this chapter, we report a dedicated design and a fabrication process of highly sensitive microcantilever silicon sensors.
We will describe as well an application of the device in the environmental field showing the immunodetection of an organic
toxic pesticide as an example. The cantilever biofunctionalization process and the subsequent pesticide determination are
detected in real time by monitoring the nanometer-scale bending of the microcantilever due to a differential surface stress
generated between both surfaces of the device.
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology | Volume: 504 | Pub. Date: Dec-11-2008 | Page Range: 51-71 | DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-569-9_4
Subject: Imaging/Radiology
Key Words: Microcantilever - Nanomechanical biosensors - MEMs - Immunoassay - Pesticide detection - Surface stress - Biofunctionalization - Biorecognition
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