Electrochemical Discrimination of Salbutamol from Its Excipients in VentolinTM at Nanoporous Gold Microdisc Arrays

Autor: Amelie Wahl, Vladimir Ogourstov, Ronan Mac Loughlin, Lorraine C. Nagle, Fiona Barry, Ian Seymour, James F. Rohan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Materials science
Inhalable pharmaceutical
Nanoconfinement effect
Salbutamol
Excipient
electrochemical sensor
Nanotechnology
nanoporous gold
Biosensing Techniques
02 engineering and technology
TP1-1185
010402 general chemistry
Electrochemistry
01 natural sciences
Biochemistry
Chloride
Article
Analytical Chemistry
Excipients
Nanopores
Adsorption
medicine
inhalable pharmaceutical
Humans
Albuterol
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Electrodes
Instrumentation
excipient
Nanoporous
Chemical technology
Electrochemical Techniques
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Atomic and Molecular Physics
and Optics

0104 chemical sciences
Electrochemical gas sensor
selective discriminative amplification
Electrochemical sensor
salbutamol
Electrode
Linear sweep voltammetry
Gold
Nanoporous gold
0210 nano-technology
nanoconfinement effect
Selective discriminative amplification
medicine.drug
Zdroj: Sensors, Vol 21, Iss 3975, p 3975 (2021)
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Sensors
Volume 21
Issue 12
ISSN: 1424-8220
Popis: The emergence of specific drug–device combination products in the inhalable pharmaceutical industry demands more sophistication of device functionality in the form of an embedded sensing platform to increase patient safety and extend patent coverage. Controlling the nebuliser function at a miniaturised, integrated electrochemical sensing platform with rapid response time and supporting novel algorithms could deliver such a technology offering. Development of a nanoporous gold (NPG) electrochemical sensor capable of creating a unique fingerprint signal generated by inhalable pharmaceuticals provided the impetus for our study of the electrooxidation of salbutamol, which is the active bronchodilatory ingredient in VentolinTM formulations. It was demonstrated that, at NPG-modified microdisc electrode arrays, salbutamol is distinguishable from the chloride excipient present at 0.0154 M using linear sweep voltammetry and can be detected amperometrically. In contrast, bare gold microdisc electrode arrays cannot afford such discrimination, as the potential for salbutamol oxidation and chloride adsorption reactions overlap. The discriminative power of NPG originates from the nanoconfinement effect for chloride in the internal pores of NPG, which selectively enhances the electron transfer kinetics of this more sluggish reaction relative to that of the faster, diffusion-controlled salbutamol oxidation. Sensing was performed at a fully integrated three-electrode cell-on-chip using Pt as a quasi-reference electrode.
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