Nanomaterials based optical biosensing of hepatitis: Recent analytical advancements

Optical biosensing of hepatitis have been progressed using numerous innovative nanomaterials in recent years. Using nanomaterials could be resulted to design devices with relatively high-throughput signal. The combination of nanomaterials and optical properties caused to develop more versatile, repeatable and also specific approaches towards detection of the biomedical analytes which is rapidly advancing to provide very simple point-of-care devices without using any label molecules. In the present article, the applications of nanomaterials to the biosensing of the hepatitis diseases are reviewed. We focused on the optical methods which were developed to detection of hepatitis viruses from 2010 to 2018 regarding the biosensor fabricating steps and mechanisms. Along with the discussion of the materials features and advantages, the figures of merit of the developed methods are also evaluated. To fully check the published papers, we searched the "hepatitis AND optical sensing AND nanomaterials" key word in Scopus and Google scholar and also separately in American chemical society (ACS), Science direct and Springer publishers. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.