Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
Volume 9, Issue 33, Pages 10965-10974Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1tc02546e
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Funding
- European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant [813863]
- EuroNanoMed III project AMI
- PRIN2017-NiFTy [2017MYBTXC]
- Fondazione Umberto Veronesi
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Label-free biosensors based on EGOTs are highly sensitive and can be best described by the Frumkin isotherm in comparison to the Langmuir and Hill isotherms. The biosensor response is primarily due to specific binding at the gate/electrolyte interface, while electrostatic repulsions between adsorbed probe-target pairs can decrease the effective equilibrium association constant.
Label free biosensors based on electrolyte gated organic transistors (EGOTs) are ultra-sensitive and versatile sensing devices. The dose curve represents the change of the sensor signal as a function of the concentration of the target analyte, and, under the hypothesis of dynamic equilibrium between the surface-bound probe and its target partner, can be fitted to adsorption isotherms. In this work, we show that the data obtained from both the OECT and EGOFET Interleukin-6 (IL-6) biosensors are best fitted by the Frumkin isotherm compared to the widely adopted Langmuir and Hill isotherms. Comparable values of the equilibrium association constant K-a and the Frumkin interaction parameter g ' are obtained with both OECT and EGOFET sharing the same functionalization of the gate electrode. Our study unambiguously shows that the biosensor response is, to a large extent, due to the specific binding at the gate/electrolyte interface, and that is viable to investigate the thermodynamics of biorecognition. Moreover, the electrostatic repulsions between adsorbed probe-target pairs are shown to decrease the effective equilibrium association constant as coverage increases, thus causing a loss of sensitivity for concentrations above the threshold limit 1/|g '|.
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