Bio-inspired Superwettable Surface for the Detection of Cancer Biomarker: A Mini Review

Abstract

Inspired by nature, superwettable material-based biosensors have aroused wide interests due to their potential in cancer biomarker detection. This mini review mainly summarized the superwettable materials as novel biosensing substrates for the development of evaporation-induced enrichment-based signal amplification and visual biosensing method. Biosensing applications based on the superhydrophobic surfaces, superwettable micropatterned surfaces, and slippery lubricant-infused porous surfaces for various cancer biomarker detections were described in detail. Finally, an insight of remaining challenges and perspectives of superwettable biosensor is proposed.