| dc.description.abstract | The search for new materials or platforms to be integrated into sensing design and devices is an interesting topic in sensor development, particularly a user-friendly and integrated device that no need for sample treatment and expertise. For this purpose, a pipette tip can be used as a novel approach in sensor development. For example, a pipette tip was developed as a pool optode for Hg (II) ions sensing.1 A pipette tip containing amine-functionalized sol-gel to enrich and purify phosphopeptides called a “lab-in-apipet-tip” was employed for mass spectroscopy measurements.2 Furthermore, a pipette tip was used as a lab-on-a-tip to create an electroanalysis system for Cu(II) ions detection.3 Here, a pipette tip can provide a sensing system for field application. Furthermore, it can be combined with other materials, such as paper and cotton. Generally, like lab on a chip (LOC),4,5 lab-on-a-tip (LOT) can be presented as a sensing platform where one or several tools integrated on a miniaturized single tip,6 and detection can be done by electrical, optical, or mechanical techniques. However, LOT is in infancy and typically developed for a single analyte, but its potential to be developed for multiple analytes is promising that can be integrated with imaging, diagnostics, and therapeutic function. | en_US |
