Journal
SENSORS
Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s18030800
Keywords
screen printed electrode (SPE); bilirubin; electrochemical sensor; carbon nanotubes (CNT); graphene; nanomaterials; electrochemical analysis
Funding
- Swiss government excellence Post-doc scholarship
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Practice oriented point-of-care diagnostics require easy-to-handle, miniaturized, and low-cost analytical tools. In a novel approach, screen printed carbon electrodes (SPEs), which were functionalized with nanomaterials, are employed for selective measurements of bilirubin, which is an important biomarker for jaundice. Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) and graphene separately deposited on SPEs provide the core of an electrochemical sensor for bilirubin. The electrocatalytic activity towards bilirubin oxidation (bilirubin to biliverdin) was observed at + 0.25 V. In addition, a further peak corresponding to the electrochemical conversion of biliverdin into purpurin appeared at + 0.48 V. When compared toMWCNT, the graphene type shows a 3-fold lower detection limit (0.3 +/- 0.022 nMand 0.1 +/- 0.018 nM, respectively), moreover, the graphene type exhibits a larger linear range (0.1-600 +/- M) than MWCNT (0.5-500 mu M) with a two-fold better sensitivity, i.e., 30 nA mu M-1 cm(-2), and 15 nA mu M-1 cm(-2), respectively. The viability is validated through measurements of bilirubin in blood serum samples and the selectivity is ensured by inhibiting common interfering biological substrates using an ionic nafion membrane. The presented approach enables the design and implementation of low cost and miniaturized electrochemical sensors.
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