Functional Design of Electrochemical Biosensors Using Polypyrrole

Autor: D.M.G. Preethichandra, Mitsuyoshi Onoda
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: IEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems. 135:174-180
ISSN: 1348-8155
0385-4221
DOI: 10.1541/ieejeiss.135.174
Popis: In order to improve biosensor performance, namely, the sensitivity, response time, and linear range values, novel amperometric polypyrrole PPy glucose biosensors, achieved by three different immobilizing techniques, namely, physical adsorption, coentrapment, and a two-step method of coentrapment with superimposed physical adsorption, have been studied. Different enzyme loading and material properties resulted in varied immobilizing techniques, leading to dissimilarities in characteristics. In this study, Pt coated AnodiscsTM with 0.2 µm maximum pore size were used as electrodes to polymerize PPy at 0.3 mAcm-2 using a solution containing 0.05 mol/L pyrrole and 0.1 M NaPF6. The polymerization time was optimized to 90 s. In the coentrapment method, glucose oxidase GOx 1 mg/mL was added to the monomer solution while an aliquot of GOx 5 µL was placed on the prepolymerized electrode for physical adsorption. A combination of these two techniques was used as the last immobilization technique. The physical adsorption method gave a sensitivity of 3 mAcm-2 mol/L-1 and a linear range of 0.5 × 10-3 mol/L to 13 × 10-3 mol/L with a response time of 3 s. The sensitivity in the case of coentrapment was 3.75 mAcm-2 mol/L-1, while the value was 4.45 mAcm-2 mol/L-1 in two-step immobilization, thus giving 25% and 48% increases, respectively. The response times of 9 s and 8 s in the latter cases reveal possible repercussion taking place in enzyme immobilization in a three-dimensional 3D PPy matrix and a delay in the time required for glucose to reach the enzyme. The linear range of the two-step method was extended to 16 × 10-3 mol/L by reinforced enzyme loading.
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