Photoelectrochemical deoxyribonucleic acid sensing on a nanostructured TiO2 electrode -: art. no. 213901

A nanostructured TiO2 electrode chemisorbed with probe deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) can photoelectrochemically detect a dye-labeled target DNA molecule. After the hybridization between the probe and target DNA molecules, light irradiation generates electrons in the dye molecules, and these electrons are injected into the TiO2 electrode. The resulting photocurrent can be measured and corresponds to the concentration of target DNA. This sensor can quantitatively detect target DNA at lower than nanomolar concentrations. In addition, by utilizing two different dyes, different DNA sequences can be detected on the TiO2 electrode. (c) 2005 American Institute of Physics.