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. 2022 Dec 12;232(6):781–815. doi: 10.1140/epjs/s11734-022-00727-y

Table 2.

List of ‘μPADs’

Field-up application Short description
Medical diagnosis Antibody screening tool that shows whether a patient has a contagious disease infection and an immune reaction to it [196]
Medical diagnosis Devices used to identify uropathogenic E. coli rely on the ability to detect nitrite, which is produced when E. coli reduces nitrate. [197]
Food quality control Pesticide detection sensor made of paper for crop samples [198]
Food quality control 3D PAD for identifying the milk allergen casein [199]
Food quality control Colorimetric PAD to detect Salmonella [200]
Medical diagnosis A pop-up, DNA-based, label-free ePAD for HBV (a biomarker of liver disorders) detection [201]
Medical diagnosis A vertical flow-based paper sandwich-type immunosensor for sensing of influenza H1N1 viruses [202]
Food quality control Instrument to measure aluminium in water without pre-treatment or pre-concentration of the sample [203]
Medical diagnosis PAD for detection of malaria [204]
Medical diagnosis Device for medical diagnosis and sweat analysis that simultaneously measures glucose, lactate, pH, chloride, and volume [205]
Medical diagnosis Platform for electrochemical immunosensing for pmol/L Ebola virus detection [206]
Medical diagnosis Human chorionic gonadotropin (a pregnancy indicator) detection via a PAD [207]
Medical diagnosis PAD to immobilize different antibodies or anti-immunoglobulin E onto screen-printed carbon electrodes [208]
Medical diagnosis PAD for COVID-19 diagnosis [209211]
Medical diagnosis Biosensor for POC sensing of dengue virus [212]
Food quality control PAD to track total ammonia in fish pond water [213]
Medical Diagnosis Electrochemical and self-powered paper-based device for glucose sensing [214, 215]
Medical diagnosis PAD for eliminating the necessity for a micropipette in quantitative analysis [216]
Medical diagnosis PAD to extract blood plasma from a whole blood sample [138]
Medical diagnosis A disposable ePAD for quantification of albumin in a urine sample [217]
Food quality control 3D PAD to simultaneously detect multiple chemical adulterants in milk [195, 218]
Medical diagnosis An intelligent paper-based UV monitor that can detect the solar UV intensity in real time for human health and safety [219]
Food quality control For estimation of the peroxide value in vegetable oils using colorimetric PAD [220]
Medical diagnosis Using exhaled air, an ePAD wearable sensor can detect hydrogen peroxide in real time [221]
Food quality control Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus, the two main pathogenic bacteria that cause milk poisoning, can be found using a colorimetric PAD [222]
Medical diagnosis PAD for blood typing. [129, 147, 185]
Medical diagnosis Detection of 17-E2, which is crucial for female menstrual and estrous cycles [155]
Medical diagnosis Peptide-based Alzheimer’s diagnostic device [161]
Energy generation A power unit that incorporates a paper-based supercapacitor and a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) to concurrently harvest and store energy from the movement [181]
Food quality control Device to detect the presence of diclofenac (DCF) in samples of spiked tap water [179]
Energy generation Paper-based batteries with maximum voltage and power of 1.56 V and 15.6 mW [78]
Food quality control Device to detect the amount of nitrite, a preservative used in meat [190, 191]
Food quality control Device based on redox titration technique to calorimetrically identify the alcohol concentration of whiskey samples [193]