Reduced Graphene Oxide/Pt Nanoparticles/Zn‐MOF‐74 Nanomaterial for a Glucose Biosensor Construction

In this study, a new glucose biosensor was fabricated by immobilizing glucose oxidase (GOx) on platinum nanoparticles (Pt NPs) decorated reduced graphene oxide (rGO)/Zn‐MOF‐74 hybrid nanomaterial. Herein, the biosensor fused the advantages of rGO with those of porous Zn‐MOF and conductive Pt NPs. This has not only enlarged the surface area and porosity for the efficient GOx immobilization and faster mass transport, but also provided favorable electrochemical features such as high current density, remarkable electron mobility through metal nanoparticles, and improved electron transfer between the components. The GOx‐rGO/Pt NPs@Zn‐MOF‐74 coated electrode displayed a linear measurement range for glucose from 0.006 to 6 mM, with a detection limit of 1.8 μM (S/N: 3) and sensitivity of 64.51 μA mM^?1 cm^?2. The amperometric response of the enzyme biosensor demonstrated the typical behavior of Michaelis‐Menten kinetics. The obtained satisfying sensitivity and measurement range enabled fast and accurate glucose measurement in cherry juice using the fabricated biosensor. The water‐stable Zn‐MOF‐74 demonstrated higher enzyme loading capacity and can be potent supporting material for biosensor construction.     

Immobilization and Characterization of Glucose Oxidase on Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Its Application to Sensing Glucose

The negatively charged （at pH 8.2） glucose oxidase （GOx, pI ca. 4.2） was assembled onto the surface of single-walled carbon nanotubes （SWNT）, which was covered （or wrapped） by a layer of positively charged polyelectrolyte poly（dimethyldiallylammonium chloride） （PDDA）, via the electrostatic interaction forming GOx-PDDASWNT nanocomposites. Fourier transform infrared （FTIR）, UV-Vis and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy （EIS） were used to characterize the growth processes of the nanocomposites. The results indicated that GOx retained its native secondary conformational structure after it was immobilized on the surface of PDDA-SWNT. A biosensor （Nafion-GOx-PDDA-SWNT/GC） was developed by immobilization of GOx-PDDA-SWNT nanocomposites on the surface of glassy carbon （GC） electrode using Nafion （5%） as a binder. The biosensor showed the electrocatalytic activity toward the oxidation of glucose under the presence of ferrocene monocarboxylic acid （FcM） as an electroactive mediator with a good stability, reproducibility and higher biological affinity. Under an optimal condition, the biosensor could be used to detection of glucose, presenting a typical characteristic of Michaelis-Menten kinetics with the apparent Michaelis-Menten constant of KM^app ca. 4.5 mmol/L, with a linear range of the concentration of glucose from 0.5 to 5.5 mmol/L （with correlation coefficient of 0.999） and the detection limit of ca. 83 μmol/L （at a signal-to-noise ratio of 3）. Thus the biosensor was useful in sensing the glucose concentration in serum since the normal glucose concentration in blood serum was around 4.6 mmol/L. The facile procedure of immobilizing GOx used in present work would promote the developments of electrochemical research for enzymes （proteins）, biosensors, biofuel cells and other bioelectrochemical devices.     

A neural network approach based on gold‐nanoparticle enzyme biosensor

Gold nanoparticles have demonstrated to be a very useful material for the construction of stable and sensitive glucose oxidase (GOx) amperometric biosensors. However, as for other enzyme electrodes, the lack of specificity for glucose limits their practical applications. Coupling biosensor responses with chemometric tools can be used to solve complex analytical signals from mixtures of species with similar properties. In this work, an amperometric biosensor based on a colloidal gold—cysteamine—gold disk electrode with the enzyme GOx and a redox mediator, tetrathiafulvalene (TTF), co‐immobilised atop the modified electrode, was used for the simultaneous determination of glucose and its common interferences, ascorbic acid and uric acid, in mixtures. Analytical data obtained from cyclic voltammograms generated with the biosensor were processed using an artificial neural network (ANN), and the separate quantification of the analytes over a range of 0.1–1 mM each was performed without any pretreatment. In all cases, the correlation coefficients obtained were higher than 0.99 and the mean prediction error was less than 1.7%. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

An Amperometric Glucose Biosensor Based on Poly (Pyrrole‐2‐Carboxylic Acid)/Glucose Oxidase Biocomposite

A newly developed amperometric glucose biosensor based on graphite rod (GR) working electrode modified with biocomposite consisting of poly (pyrrole‐2‐carboxylic acid) (PCPy) particles and enzyme glucose oxidase (GOx) was investigated. The PCPy particles were synthesized by chemical oxidative polymerization technique using H₂O₂ as initiator of polymerization reaction and modified covalently with the GOx (PCPy‐GOx) after activation of carboxyl groups located on the particles surface with a mixture of N‐(3‐dimethylaminopropyl)‐N′‐ethylcarbodiimide hydrochloride (EDC) and N‐hydroxysuccinimide (NHS). Then the PCPy‐GOx biocomposite was dispersed in a buffer solution containing a certain amount of bovine serum albumin (BSA). The resulting biocomposite suspension was adsorbed the on GR electrode surface with subsequent solvent airing and chemical cross‐linking of the proteins with glutaraldehyde vapour (GR/PCPy‐GOx). It was determined that the current response of the GR/PCPy‐GOx electrodes to glucose measured at +300 mV vs Cl reference electrode was influenced by the duration of the PCPy particles synthesis, pH of the GOx solution used for the PCPy particles modification and the amount of immobilized PCPy‐GOx biocomposite. An optimal pH of buffer solution for operation of the biosensor was found to be 8.0. Detection limit was determined as 0.039 mmol L⁻¹ according signal to noise ratio (S/N: 3). The proposed glucose biosensor was tested in human serum samples.     

Biological Glucose Metabolism Regulated Peptide Self‐Assembly as a Simple Visual Biosensor for Glucose Detection

A glucose oxidase (GOx)‐mediated glucose metabolism was in vitro mimicked and employed to regulate the self‐assembly of peptide‐based building blocks. In this new stimuli‐responsive self‐assembly system, two peptide‐based building blocks, respectively, having aspartic acid (gelator 1 ) and lysine (gelator 2 ) residues were designed and prepared. When adding glucose and GOx to the aqueous solution of gelator 1 or the self‐assembled fibrillar hydrogel of gelator 2 to construct glucose metabolism system, the metabolic product (gluconic acid) can trigger the protonation of the peptide molecules and induce the phase transitions of gelators 1 (sol‐gel) and 2 (gel‐sol). Because this glucose metabolism regulated peptide self‐assembly is built on the oxidation of glucose, it can be used as a simple visual biosensor for glucose detection.     

Bird nest-like zinc oxide nanostructures for sensitive electrochemical glucose biosensor

In this research, a novel bird nest-like zinc oxide (BN-ZnO) nanostructures were prepared by a simple solvothermal method. A sensitive electrochemical glucose biosensor was for the first time developed based on the immobilization of glucose oxidase (GOx) on nanostructured BN-ZnO modified electrode. The BN-ZnO nanostructure and the resultant biosensor were characterized by scanning electron microscope, X-ray diffraction spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. BN-ZnO nanostructures have large specific surface area and can load large amounts of GOx molecules. Meanwhile, BN-ZnO provides an excellent microenvironment to retain the native bioactivity of enzymes and to promote direct electron transfer between GOx and electrode surface. The proposed biosensor shows a wide linear range of 0.005–1.6 mmol/L, high sensitivity of 15.6 mA L mol⁻¹ cm⁻² with a low detection limit of 0.004 mmol/L. The resulting biosensor also shows excellent selectivity, acceptable stability and reproducibility, and can be successfully applied in the detection of glucose in human serum samples at −0.37 V.     

Direct Electrochemistry of Glucose Oxidase on Nail‐like Carbon and Its Biosensing for Glucose

Nail‐like carbon (NLC) was synthesized by a simple hydrothermal method. It was the first time that a novel electrochemical biosensing of glucose was explored based on the glucose oxidase (GOx)‐NLC‐chitosan (CHIT) glassy carbon electrode. Morphology and structure of NLC were characterized by scanning electron microscope; meanwhile the chemical composition was determined by X‐ray diffraction and energy dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy. The cyclic voltammetry of immobilized GOx showed a pair of quasireversible redox peaks with the formal potential (E°′) of ?0.458 V and the peak‐to‐peak potential separation was 47 mV at a scan rate of 100 mV s^?1. The present biosensor has a linear range of glucose from 0.02 to 1.84 mM (correlation coefficient of 0.9991) and detection limit of 0.01 mM (S/N=3). Compared with the previous reports based on the carbon material biosensor, it has a high sensitivity of 165.5 μA mM^?1 cm^?2 and low apparent Michaelis–Menten constant of 0.506 mM. Thus, the NLC may have potential applications in the field of bioelectrochemistry, bioelectronics and biofuels.     

Evaluation of Some Redox Mediators in the Design of Reagentless Amperometric Glucose Biosensor

The influence of redox mediators (tetrathiafulvalene (TTF), tetrathiafulvalene‐tetracyanoquinodimethane complex (TTF‐TCNQ), phenazine methosulfate (PMS), 5,6‐diamino‐1,10‐phenonthroline (5,6‐DAP), potassium ferrocyanide (K4[Fe(CN)6]), methylene blue (MB) and toluidine blue (TB)) on the response of amperometric glucose biosensor was investigated in this research. Graphite rod electrode (GRE) modified by adsorbed mediator and glucose oxidase (GOx) cross‐linked with glutaraldehyde was served as working electrode. The highest amperometric signals were observed by using TTF and TTF‐TCNQ as mediators. The impact of amount of immobilized GOx, an optimal pH region for operation, stability and reproducibility of the analytic signal of designed biosensor using these mediators were investigated and discussed.     

A Novel Enzymatic Glucose Biosensor and Nonenzymatic Hydrogen Peroxide Sensor Based on (3‐Aminopropyl) Triethoxysilane Functionalized Reduced Graphene Oxide

In the present study, a novel enzymatic glucose biosensor using glucose oxidase (GOx) immobilized into (3‐aminopropyl) triethoxysilane (APTES) functionalized reduced graphene oxide (rGO‐APTES) and hydrogen peroxide sensor based on rGO‐APTES modified glassy carbon (GC) electrode were fabricated. Nafion (Nf) was used as a protective membrane. For the characterization of the composites, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X‐ray powder diffractometer (XRD), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) were used. The electrochemical properties of the modified electrodes were investigated using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, cyclic voltammetry, and amperometry. The resulting Nf/rGO‐APTES/GOx/GC and Nf/rGO‐APTES/GC composites showed good electrocatalytical activity toward glucose and H₂O₂, respectively. The Nf/rGO‐APTES/GC electrode exhibited a linear range of H₂O₂ concentration from 0.05 to 15.25 mM with a detection limit (LOD) of 0.017 mM and sensitivity of 124.87 μA mM⁻¹ cm⁻². The Nf/rGO‐APTES/GOx/GC electrode showed a linear range of glucose from 0.02 to 4.340 mM with a LOD of 9 μM and sensitivity of 75.26 μA mM⁻¹ cm⁻². Also, the sensor and biosensor had notable selectivity, repeatability, reproducibility, and storage stability.     

ZnO/Cu nanocomposite: a platform for direct electrochemistry of enzymes and biosensing applications

Unique structured nanomaterials can facilitate the direct electron transfer between redox proteins and the electrodes. Here, in situ directed growth on an electrode of a ZnO/Cu nanocomposite was prepared by a simple corrosion approach, which enables robust mechanical adhesion and electrical contact between the nanostructured ZnO and the electrodes. This is great help to realize the direct electron transfer between the electrode surface and the redox protein. SEM images demonstrate that the morphology of the ZnO/Cu nanocomposite has a large specific surface area, which is favorable to immobilize the biomolecules and construct biosensors. Using glucose oxidase (GOx) as a model, this ZnO/Cu nanocomposite is employed for immobilization of GOx and the construction of the glucose biosensor. Direct electron transfer of GOx is achieved at ZnO/Cu nanocomposite with a high heterogeneous electron transfer rate constant of 0.67 ± 0.06 s(-1). Such ZnO/Cu nanocomposite provides a good matrix for direct electrochemistry of enzymes and mediator-free enzymatic biosensors.     

Electrochemical glucose biosensor based on silver nanoparticles/multiwalled carbon nanotubes modified electrode

A novel glucose biosensor was fabricated by immobilizing glucose oxidase (GOx) on Ag nanoparticles-decorated multiwalled carbon nanotube (AgNP-MWNT) modified glass carbon electrode (GCE). The AgNP-MWNT composite membrane showed an improving biocompatibility for GOx immobilization and an enhancing electrocatalytic activity toward reduction of oxygen due to decoration of AgNPs on MWNT surfaces. The AgNPs also accelerated the direct electron transfer between redox-active site of GOx and GCE surface because of their excellent conductivity and large capacity for protein loading, leading to direct electrochemistry of GOx. The glucose biosensor of this work showed a lower limit of detection of 0.01 mM (S/N?=?3) and a wide linear range from 0.025 to 1.0 mM, indicating an excellent analytical performance of the obtained biosensor to glucose detection. The resulting biosensor exhibits good stability and excellent reproducibility. Such bionanocomposite provides us good candidate material for fabrication of biosensors based on direct electrochemistry of immobilized enzymes.     

基于Ru(bpy)■-三乙胺体系的电致化学发光生物传感器检测葡萄糖

联吡啶钌(Ru(bpy)■)拥有优良的电致化学发光(ECL)性能,但其较好的水溶性使其固载面临巨大问题。该文制备了Pt纳米粒子与Ru(bpy)■的复合物(Pt NPs-Ru),将其修饰于电极并进一步固载葡萄糖氧化酶(GOx)制得传感器。基于H2O2对Ru(bpy)■-三乙胺体系ECL信号的猝灭作用,随着葡萄糖浓度的增加,其在GOx的催化下原位产生的H2O2量增多,导致ECL信号逐渐减弱,从而实现葡萄糖的检测。ECL强度与葡萄糖浓度的对数在1.0×10-8~5.0×10-5 mol/L范围内呈良好的线性关系,检出限低至5.2×10-9 mol/L。传感器具有好的稳定性和高的选择性。Pt NPs-Ru复合物为ECL传感器的构建提供了良好平台,为葡萄糖检测提供了新方法。     

Glucosinolate Amperometric Bienzyme Biosensor Based on Carbon Nanotubes‐Gold Nanoparticles Composite Electrodes

A novel electrochemical biosensor design for glucosinolate determination involving bulk‐incorporation of the enzymes glucose oxidase and myrosinase into a colloidal gold ‐ multiwalled carbon nanotubes composite electrode using Teflon as binder is reported. Myrosinase catalyzes the hydrolysis of glucosinolate forming glucose, which is enzymatically oxidized. The generated hydrogen peroxide was electrochemically detected without mediator at the nanostructured composite electrode at E=+0.5 V vs. Ag/AgCl. Under the optimized conditions, the bienzyme MYR/GOx‐Au_coll‐MWCNT‐Teflon exhibited improved analytical characteristics for the glucosinolate sinigrin with respect to a biosensor constructed without gold nanoparticles, i.e. a MYR/GOx‐MWCNT‐Teflon electrode, as well as with respect to other glucosinolate biosensor designs reported in the literature. The biosensor exhibits good repeatability of the amperometric measurements and good interassay reproducibility. Furthermore, the biosensor exhibited a high selectivity with respect to various potential interferents. The usefulness of the biosensor was evaluated by the determination of glucosinolate in Brussel sprout seeds.     

基于WS2量子点材料固定葡萄糖氧化酶的直接电化学及其生物传感研究

采用水热法制备水溶性WS₂量子点（WS₂ QDs）材料,并将该材料进一步用于葡萄糖氧化酶（GOx）的有效固定,构建GOx/W₂ QDs/GCE传感界面. 采用透射电镜、紫外-可见光谱和电化学等方法对材料的形貌、GOx的固定化过程,以及传感器的直接电化学和电催化性能进行了表征. 结果表明,WS₂ QDs材料能够有效促进GOx与电极之间的直接电子转移. 并且,基于该传感器对葡萄糖良好的电催化作用,该方法有效实现了对葡萄糖的高灵敏检测,其线性范围为25 ~ 100 μmol·L^-1和100 ~ 600 μmol·L^-1,检测限为5.0 μmol·L^-1（S/N=3）. 该传感器具有良好的选择性、重现性和稳定性,可用于实际样品血糖的分析测定.     

An XPS investigation on glucose oxidase and Ni/Al hydrotalcite interaction

In this work, a Ni/Al hydrotalcite (HT) was used as glucose oxidase (GOx) immobilizer. Small‐area and angle‐resolved X‐ray photoelectron spectra were recorded on HTs electrosynthesized on Pt in the absence and in the presence of GOx, and compared with those obtained for a Pt surface, modified with the electrosynthesized HT, on which a drop of GOx solution was deposited. The simultaneous electrodeposition of HT + GOx resulted in a compact deposit, thicker than the XPS sampling depth (>10 nm), that is not homogeneous in the lateral and in‐depth composition. The presence of GOx can be deduced comparing the N1s spectra of HT and HT + GOx: in the latter, the N1s component at 400 eV binding energy (BE) is predominant whilst, depending on the analyzed point, a small or no contribution from the component at 407.2 eV, due to nitrate, is revealed. Angle‐resolved XPS provides evidence on the in‐depth composition of anions, cations and GOx. The results highlight the crucial role played by nickel in GOx immobilization. On the basis of the results, it can be suggested that enzyme activity is unevenly distributed and is localized in small areas, where Ni concentration is higher. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Amperometric Biosensor Coupled to Capillary Electrophoresis for Glucose Determination

A novel glucose biosensor has been fabricated and employed as the amperometric detector of a capillary electrophoresis (CE) system. (±)-1-Ferrocenylethylamine and chitosan were successively modified on a 500-µm diameter disc platinum electrode by dip-coating. The modified electrode was subsequently immersed in glucose oxidase (GOx) solution to entrap the enzyme in the chitosan membrane. The primary amino groups of 1-ferrocenylethylamine, GOx, and chitosan were cross-linked by glutaraldehyde to obtain a biosensing membrane so as to reduce leaching of 1-ferrocenylethylamine and GOx. The electrochemical behavior of the target biosensor was investigated. It was demonstrated that the investigated biosensor features fast response, high stability, long lifetime, and ideal compatibility with the CE system. When CE was employed to introduce a glucose plug into the surface of the biosensor, the current response was linear to the glucose concentration in the range of 0.0025 to 2.5 mM with a detection limit of 1.2 µM (S/N = 3) at a working potential of +0.6 V (vs. SCE). The CE-biosensor system was applied to the determination of the glucose level in human serum. The results were satisfactory and in good agreement with the hospital assay results.     

Effect of Gold Nanoparticles on the Structure and Electron‐Transfer Characteristics of Glucose Oxidase Redox Polyelectrolyte‐Surfactant Complexes

Efficient electrical communication between redox proteins and electrodes is a critical issue in the operation and development of amperometric biosensors. The present study explores the advantages of a nanostructured redox‐active polyelectrolyte–surfactant complex containing [Os(bpy)₂Clpy]²⁺ (bpy=2,2′‐bipyridine, py= pyridine) as the redox centers and gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) as nanodomains for boosting the electron‐transfer propagation throughout the assembled film in the presence of glucose oxidase (GOx). Film structure was characterized by grazing‐incidence small‐angle X‐ray scattering (GISAXS) and atomic force microscopy (AFM), GOx incorporation was followed by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and quartz‐crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM‐D), whereas Raman spectroelectrochemistry and electrochemical studies confirmed the ability of the entrapped gold nanoparticles to enhance the electron‐transfer processes between the enzyme and the electrode surface. Our results show that nanocomposite films exhibit five‐fold increase in current response to glucose compared with analogous supramolecular AuNP‐free films. The introduction of colloidal gold promotes drastic mesostructural changes in the film, which in turn leads to a rigid, amorphous interfacial architecture where nanoparticles, redox centers, and GOx remain in close proximity, thus improving the electron‐transfer process.     

固载于壳聚糖-纳米金复合膜修饰玻碳电极上的葡萄糖氧化酶的直接电化学研究及其生物传感应用

通过将葡萄糖氧化酶固载于壳聚糖-纳米金复合膜内所构置的传感器,实现了葡萄糖氧化酶的直接电化学,并采用循环伏安法与电化学阻抗法对修饰电极进行了表征。研究表明：在除氧缓冲溶液中,葡萄糖氧化酶-壳聚糖-纳米金复合膜修饰电极表现出一对良好的氧化还原峰,这对峰归因于葡萄糖氧化酶的氧化还原,证明葡萄糖氧化酶被成功固载于复合膜内。电子传递速率常数为15.6 s-1,说明葡萄糖氧化酶的电活性中心与电极之间的电子传递很快。将壳聚糖与纳米金相结合还提高了葡萄糖氧化酶在复合膜内的稳定性并保持其生物活性,并可以用于葡萄糖检测。计算得到其表观米氏常数为10.1 mmol·L-1。而且,该生物传感器可以用于血样中葡萄糖含量的测定。     

Spatial Architecture of Modified Carbon Nanotubes/Electrochemically Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanomaterial for Fast Electron Transfer. Application in Glucose Biosensor

Electron transfer (ET) reactions in bioelectrocatalysis of enzymes at electrode surfaces require not only the efficient immobilization, but also highly conductive nanostructured platform, which allows for retaining its bioactivity and structural conformation. The novel architecture of spatially separated electrochemically reduced graphene oxide (ERGO) by multi‐walled carbon nanotubes functionalized with 4‐(pyrrole‐1‐yl) benzoic acid (MWCNT/PyBA) with the accurate porous structure could be an alternative for earlier approaches to the construction of bioelectrocatalytic systems with rapid diffusion of reagents from the solution to the enzyme molecule. The formation of ERGO/MWCNT/PyBA system was confirmed by electrochemical, spectroscopic and microscopic methods. The cyclic voltammetry experiments revealed that the presence of ERGO in the conductive material affects the electronic communication between the enzyme molecule and modified electrode surface greatly improving its ET properties resulting in a double increase of the heterogeneous ET rate constant value (k_s=6.5 s^?1). The fabricated glucose oxidase based biosensor sensitively detects glucose, therefore, ERGO/MWCNT/PyBA architecture could provide a novel and efficient platform for immobilization of redox enzymes.     

Fabrication of Bienzymatic Glucose Biosensor Based on Novel Gold Nanoparticles‐Bacteria Cellulose Nanofibers Nanocomposite

An exploration of gold nanoparticles–bacterial cellulose nanofibers (Au‐BC) nanocomposite as a platform for amperometric determination of glucose is presented. Two enzymes, glucose oxidase (GOx) and horseradish peroxidase (HRP) were immobilized in Au‐BC nanocomposite modified glassy carbon electrode at the same time. A sensitive and fast amperometric response to glucose was observed in the presence of electron mediator (HQ). Both of GOx and HRP kept their biocatalytic activities very well in Au‐BC nanocomposite. The detection limit for glucose in optimized conditions was as low as 2.3 µM with a linear range from 10 µM to 400 µM. The biosensor was successfully applied to the determination of glucose in human blood samples.