Table 1.

Survey of papers devoted to biosensors and the other analytical devices using piezoelectric platform.

Recognition Part	Piezoelectric Part	Analyte	Limit of Detection	References
Antibody	QCM 1	Albumin in urea (albuminuria)	0.1 µg/mL	[18]
Antibody	QCM	Francisella tularensis	105 CFU/mL	[25]
Antibody on the sensor surface and gold nanoparticles covered by antibodies	QCM	Escherichia coli O157:H7	10 CFU/mL	[27]
Molecularly Imprinted Polymer from electropolymerized 3-thiophene acetic acid	QCM	Drug melphalan	5.40 ng/mL	[43]
Electrochemically polymerized I-methionine with molecularly imprinted taurine	QCM	Taurine	0.12 µmol/L	[45]
DNA probe	8 µm thick lead magnesium niobite-lead titanate piezoelectric plates	DNA	10−19 mol/L in urine samples	[54]
DNA specific to stx2 gene from Escherichia coli O157:H7	Piezoelectric-excited cantilever sensor	Escherichia coli O157:H7	700 cells/mL	[57]
Oligonucleotide functionalized gold nanoparticles	QCM	Denque virus	2 PFU/mL	[58]
Antibody	Lead zirconate-lead titanate glass piezoelectric microcantilever sensor	Marker of cancer Her2	0.06 nmol/L	[68]
Various short peptides	QCM	volatile compounds	-	[64]

¹ QCM—Quartz Crystal Microbalance.