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Recent Advances of Electrochemiluminescent System in Bioassay

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Electrochemiluminescent (ECL) technique has drawn increasing attention in a myriad of applications ranging from clinic diagnosis to the environment and food monitoring. The advantages of ECL sensors include high sensitivity, negligible background, and excellent controllability with respect to its counterparts. The past 2 years have witnessed an impetus in the rise of a batch of luminophores and coreactants as advanced materials to boost the ECL efficiencies. In the review, we summarize the latest progress of new ECL biosensing systems, in particular of emerging luminophores, coreactants, and the involved mechanisms. Possible limitations and exciting future developments of the ECL biosensing are also complementarily discussed. It is highly envisioned that the review article would inspire more intriguing advances both in the fundamental research and more demanding practical applications of ECL for prospective biosensing.

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Copyright 2019 American Chemical Society. b Chemical structure of the synthesized dye (left) and spooling ECL spectra (right). Reprinted with permission from [47]. Copyright 2019 Wiley–VCH Verlag GmbH &Co. KGaA, Weinheim

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Copyright 2018 American Chemical Society. b The label-free visualization of antigens at the cellular membrane and the simplified Randles circuit. Reprinted with permission from [128]. Copyright 2019 American Chemical Society. Single ECL spike (c) and staircase (d) signals during the collisions process. Insets: ECL snapshots of individual nanoparticles during a typical collision process. Reprinted with permission from [130]. Copyright The Royal Society of Chemistry 2018

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21675022 and 21775018), the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20170084) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

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Chen, M., Ning, Z., Chen, K. et al. Recent Advances of Electrochemiluminescent System in Bioassay. J. Anal. Test. 4, 57–75 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41664-020-00136-x

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