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- Title
Design of a Porous Silicon Biosensor: Characterization, Modeling, and Application to the Indirect Detection of Bacteria.
- Authors
Vercauteren, Roselien; Gevers, Clémentine; Mahillon, Jacques; Francis, Laurent A.
- Abstract
The design of a porous silicon (PSi) biosensor is not often documented, but is of the upmost importance to optimize its performance. In this work, the motivation behind the design choices of a PSi-based optical biosensor for the indirect detection of bacteria via their lysis is detailed. The transducer, based on a PSi membrane, was characterized and models were built to simulate the analyte diffusion, depending on the porous nanostructures, and to optimize the optical properties. Once all performances and properties were analyzed and optimized, a theoretical response was calculated. The theoretical limit of detection was computed as 104 CFU/mL, based on the noise levels of the optical setup. The experimental response was measured using 106 CFU/mL of Bacillus cereus as model strain, lysed by bacteriophage-coded endolysins PlyB221. The obtained signal matched the expected response, demonstrating the validity of our design and models.
- Subjects
POROUS silicon; BIOSENSORS; BACILLUS cereus; BACTERIA; DETECTION limit; OPTICAL properties
- Publication
Biosensors (2079-6374), 2024, Vol 14, Issue 2, p104
- ISSN
2079-6374
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/bios14020104