Method for detecting analytes
AssigneeMonash University
InventorsRajpreet Singh Minhas, David Rudd, Taryn Guinan, Nicolas Hans Voelcker
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Abstract
The invention provides a method for detecting one or more analytes, the method comprising: providing a substrate comprising a semiconductor with a porous surface, wherein the porous surface is coated with a fluorocarbon polymeric coating; contacting the porous surface with a fluid or object so that the one or more analytes are retained on the substrate when present in the fluid or on the object; and analysing the substrate by mass spectrometry to detect the one or more analytes if present on the substrate.
Claims20
A method for detecting one or more analytes, the method comprising:
- providing a substrate comprising a semiconductor with a porous surface, wherein the porous surface is coated with a fluorocarbon polymeric coating, wherein the fluorocarbon polymeric coating comprises a fluorocarbon plasma polymer produced by contacting the porous surface with a fluorocarbon plasma,
- contacting the porous surface with a fluid or object so that the one or more analytes are retained on the substrate when present in the fluid or on the object;
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- analysing the substrate by mass spectrometry to detect the one or more analytes if present on the substrate.
A coated substrate for retaining analytes to detect, the substrate comprising a semiconductor with a porous surface, wherein the porous surface is coated with a fluorocarbon polymeric coating, wherein the fluorocarbon polymeric coating comprises a fluorocarbon plasma polymer produced by contacting the porous surface with a fluorocarbon plasma.
A method of producing a coated substrate for retaining analytes to detect, the method comprising:
- providing a substrate comprising a semiconductor with a porous surface;
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- contacting the substrate with a fluorocarbon plasma, thereby coating the porous surface with a fluorocarbon polymeric coating, wherein the fluorocarbon polymeric coating comprises a fluorocarbon plasma polymer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.