Immobilization Method for the Preparation of Biosensors Based on pH Shift-Induced Deposition of Biomolecule-Containing Polymer Films
- 14 December 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Analytical Chemistry
- Vol. 74 (2), 355-361
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ac010830a
Abstract
Miniaturization of amperometric biosensors is crucially dependent on the availability of methods for the nonmanual immobilization of biological recognition elements on the transducer surface. From an aqueous polymer suspension, the precipitation of a polymer film with entrapped biological recognition elements is initiated by electrochemically induced oxidation of H2O at the electrode surface. Using the locally generated H+ gradient, acidic side chains of the polymer are titrated, leading to a change in the polymer solubility and hence to the controlled deposition of a polymer film. To investigate the properties and limitations of this immobilization technology, the specific features of a glucose biosensor based on polymer-entrapped glucose oxidase and amperometric detection of enzymatically generated H2O2 were investigated. Besides the reproducibility of the immobilization procedure, the sensitivity (14.59 mA cm-2 M-1 at pH 7), long-term stability (up to 5000 measurements in a sequential-injection analyzer), dependence on enzyme concentration, polymer thickness, and possibilities to fabricate multilayer sensor architectures were exploited. In addition, the miniaturization potential of this nonmanual immobilization technology was evaluated by investigating the modification of microband electrode arrays and cross talk between the neighboring microsensors.Keywords
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