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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 91, Issue 21, Pages 13521-13527Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b02610
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- ARC Discovery [DP170102208, DP180101715]
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Traditional electrochemical biosensing electrodes (e.g., gold disk, glassy carbon electrode, etc.) can undergo sophisticated design to detect chemicals/biologicals from cells. However, such electrodes are typically rigid and nonstretchable, rendering it challenging to detect cellular activities in real-time and in situ when cells are in mechanically deformed states. Here, we report a new stretchable electrochemical cell-sensing platform based on vertically aligned gold nanowires embedded in PDMS (v-AuNWs/PDMS). Using H2O2 as a model analyte, we show that the v-AuNWs/PDMS electrode can display an excellent sensing performance with a wide linear range, from 40 mu M to 15 mM, and a high sensitivity of 250 mA/cm(2)/M at a potential of -0.3 V. Moreover, living cells can grow directly on our stretchable high-surface area electrodes with strong adhesion, demonstrating their excellent biocompatibility. Further cell stimulation by adding chemicals induced H2O2 generation, which can be detected in real-time and in situ using our v-AuNWs/PDMS platform for both natural and stretched states of cells. Our results indicate the v-AuNWs/PDMS electrochemical biosensor may serve as a general cell-sensing platform for living organisms under deformed states.
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