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The sandwich assays are one of the mainstays in the fields of clinical diagnostics, molecular detection, and environmental monitoring due to their high specificity and good sensitivity for the detection of analytes. Owing to the development of chemistry and material science, the sandwich assays have been developed vigorously with thousands of published papers to date. To further improve the sensitivity, supersandwich assays emerge as the times require. In this chapter, we will introduce the sandwich assays and briefly discuss the applications of the sandwich assays in the detection of proteins, nucleic acids, small molecules, ions, and cells as well as supersandwich assays. The discussion in detail can be found in subsequent chapters.

The original version of this chapter was revised: Foreword has been included and authors’ affiliations have been updated. The erratum to this chapter is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7835-4_13

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  1. Engineering Research Center of Nano-Geomaterials of Ministry of Education, Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaojin Zhang & Fan Xia

  2. Hubei Key Laboratory of Bioinorganic Chemistry & Materia Medica, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, People’s Republic of China

    Fan Xia

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  3. Engineering Research Center of Nano-Geomaterials of Ministry of Education, Faculty of Materials Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China

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Zhang, X., Xia, F. (2018). Introduction. In: Xia, F., Zhang, X., Lou, X., Yuan, Q. (eds) Biosensors Based on Sandwich Assays. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7835-4_1

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