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ANALYST
Volume 134, Issue 12, Pages 2412-2418Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b916774a
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- Rhone Alpes region, France
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Single-walled carbon nanotubes were functionalized with biotin using either electropolymerization or formation of pi-stacking interactions for the construction of biosensors. Thanks to the high affinity of the avidin-biotin interactions, a biotinylated glucose oxidase (B-GOX) as a biomolecule model was immobilized on the biotinylated nanotubes. The influence of the biosensor configuration on their amperometric performances was investigated by changing the amount of nanotubes and the numbers of avidin/B-GOX layers. By increasing the amount of nanotube and avidin/B-GOX layers, both sensor setups show a perfect linear increase of immobilized enzymes reflecting a high reproducibility of our systems. The highest sensitivities (up to 5.2 mA M-1 cm(-2)) and maximum current densities ( up to 55 mu A cm(-2)) were obtained using nanotube deposits modified by electrochemical coatings. In contrast, non-covalently functionalized biotin-nanotubes show a better permeability for the enzymatically generated hydrogen peroxide.
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