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Sandwich Assays for Small Molecule and Ion Detection

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Small molecules and ions play a critical role in biological and environmental systems. The detection of small molecules and ions is a significantly important issue and still a challenge in analytical chemistry. In the past decade, large attention has been paid to the detection of small molecules and ions based on sandwich assays due to their high sensitivity and selectivity. In this chapter, we summarize some sandwich assays for the detection of small molecules and ions that were proposed in recent years. The detection techniques afforded in the sandwich assays for the detection of small molecules and ions include electrochemical method, electrochemiluminescence method, fluorescence method, colorimetric method, and some other methods such as surface plasmon resonance (SPR), surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), and quartz crystal microbalance (QCM).

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

    Yu Dai, 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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Dai, Y., Zhang, X., Xia, F. (2018). Sandwich Assays for Small Molecule and Ion Detection. 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_10

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