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Comparing surface modification methods for silicon nanowire field-effect transistor biosensors for diagnosis applications: A case study of cardiac troponin I

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DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2023.132146

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Field-effect transistor biosensor; (3-aminopropyl) triethoxysilane; Silane-PEG; Surface modification; Cardiac troponin; 1-(3-aminopropyl) silatrane

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This study compares different surface modification methods for silica-based biosensor fabrication and evaluates their performance in quantifying cardiac troponin I (cTnI) at ultralow concentrations and small increment resolution in human serum. The results show that only the silane-PEG-modified samples provide a superior surface for probe immobilization and high antifouling capability for the PEG-SiNWFET biosensors to accurately quantify cTnI at ultralow levels in human serum.
This study is a debut of a side-by-side comparison of different methods to modify the surfaces of the silica-based substrates for biosensor fabrication. The fabricated biosensors are assessed for the quantification of cardiac troponin I (cTnI), a biomarker of acute myocardial infarction, at ultralow concentrations and small increment resolution in human serum. To accomplish this, silica samples and silicon nanowire field-effect transistor (SiNWFET) channels were modified with (3-aminopropyl)triethoxysilane, 1-(3-aminopropyl)silatrane, and the mixed self-assembly monolayer of silane-polyethylene glycol (silane-PEG, constituting of silane-PEG-NH2 and silane-PEG-OH at the ratio of NH2:OH = 1:10). Afterwards, they were treated with glutaraldehyde to immobilize aptamer probes for cTnI aptasensor detection. Thereafter, the modified-silica samples were investigated for surface roughness and antifouling capability, whereas the SiNWFET aptasensors were employed to determine cTnI. Empirical data revealed that only the silane-PEG-modified samples provided a superior surface for probeimmobilization and high antifouling capability for the PEG-SiNWFET aptasensors to determine cTnI at ultralow levels with high resolution in human serum. Therefore, surface modification with silane-PEG provided an option for the challenge of precise quantification of cTnI, as well as of other protein biomarkers, at ultralow levels in bio-samples using the FET-based biosensors.

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