Ziyang Zhang, Guang Yang, Fei Fan, Changzhi Zhong, Ying Yuan, Xiaodong Zhang, Shengjiang Chang
Analytica chimica acta 2021 Oct 02Terahertz (THz) waves have the advantages of being noninvasive and nonionizing because of their low radiation energy, so they have potential applications in the biomedical field, but thus far, those have been limited by the strong absorption in water and low detection sensitivity. Herein, we propose a reflective THz time-domain circular dichroism (CD) sensing system and a silicon subwavelength grating as the microstructure sensor to generate and detect the THz chiral polarization states, to realize quantitative detection of living cell numbers and qualitative identification of cell kinds in a liquid environment. Three kinds of hepatoma cell proliferation and inhibition with different concentrations of aspirin were measured by this sensing method, and the experimental results show that the sensitivities for CD resonance intensity and frequency shift can reach 3.44 dB mL/106 cells and 5.88 GHz mL/106 cells, respectively, and the minimum detection concentration is in the order of 104 cells/mL for THz detection in a liquid environment for the first time. This new THz sensing system and sensing method are expected to become a broadband, label-free, noncontact, real-time detection technology that can be used for quantitative detection and qualitative identification of cells or other active biochemical materials. Copyright © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Ziyang Zhang, Guang Yang, Fei Fan, Changzhi Zhong, Ying Yuan, Xiaodong Zhang, Shengjiang Chang. Terahertz circular dichroism sensing of living cancer cells based on microstructure sensor. Analytica chimica acta. 2021 Oct 02;1180:338871
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