Point of Care diagnostics - Using Nanomaterials as detection probes

Abstract

Point of care diagnostics (POCD) are becoming an integral part in modern health care system. It helps enormously in diagnosis and monitoring of any illness. These diagnostics help to provide rapid and fast results at a low cost. POCD has an idea to develop such portable devices, chips, system using nanomaterials as detection-based sensors for quantifying different analytes in complex samples. Incorporating nano based structures in POCD makes it highly sensitive and a easy and fast detecting tool for future generation. Nanomaterials of various size and shape are prepared and due to their unique sensing properties, they help in signal generation and quantification of analyte become easy. In this review we aimed to focus on the types of point of care diagnostics made using nanomaterials, which can be a greatest tool in identification of analytes in future world.