Journal
ACS SENSORS
Volume 5, Issue 10, Pages 3165-3171Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.0c01297
Keywords
stretchable electrode; holey gold film; electrochemistry; biosensors; nanosphere lithography
Funding
- ARC [DP180101715]
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In bioelectronics, gold thin films have been widely used as sensing electrodes for probing biological events due to their high conductivity, chemical inertness, biocompatibility, wide electrochemical window, and facile surface modification. However, they are intrinsically not stretchable, which limits their applications in detecting biological reactions when a soft biological system is mechanically deformed. Here, we report on a nanosphere lithography-based strategy to generate ordered microhole gold thin-film electrodes supported by elastomeric substrates. Both experimental and theoretical studies show that the presence of microholes substantially suppresses the catastrophic crack propagation-the main reason for electrical failure for a continuous gold film. As a result, the holey gold film achieves a similar to 94% stretchable limit, after which the conductivity is lost, in contrast to , similar to 4% for the nonstructured counterpart. Furthermore, the pinhole gold electrode is successfully used to monitor the H2O2 released from living cells under dynamic stretching conditions.
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