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Recent Update of Nanobiosensors Using Olfactory Sensing Elements and Nanomaterials
Hwi Jin Ko*
N-Bio Institute, Seoul National University, Korea
- Corresponding Author:
- Ko HJ
Research Associate Professor
N-Bio Institute, Seoul National University
Seoul 151-742, Korea
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E-mail: hwijinko@snu.ac.kr
Received September 01, 2015; Accepted October 17, 2015; Published October 20, 2015
Citation: Ko HJ (2015) Recent Update of Nanobiosensors Using Olfactory Sensing Elements and Nanomaterials. Biosens J 4:129. doi:10.4172/2090-4967.1000129
Copyright: © 2015 Ko HJ. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Various biomaterials such as antibody, aptamer, enzyme, DNA and sensory receptor can be used for recognizing ligands by nanobiosensor. Especially, olfactory sensing elements with olfactory receptor are most promising one to develop the nanobiosensor with high performance because they can discriminate target molecules with high selectivity and also detect numerous odorant molecules, for example over ten thousands of odorants at very low concentration can be detected by human nose. There have been increasing many efforts to develop the nanobiosensor using various olfactory sensing elements. Recently, several olfactory sensing elements were integrated with nanomaterials, which greatly improve the sensitivity of the nanobiosensor, to enhance the performance of nanobiosenor. In this paper, olfactory sensing elements were briefly introduced for the development of the nanobiosensor with high performance.
