Journal
BIOSENSORS & BIOELECTRONICS
Volume 26, Issue 5, Pages 2801-2804Publisher
ELSEVIER ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2010.11.009
Keywords
Optical sensor; Molecularly imprinted polymer; Diffraction grating; Label-free sensing
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- MCI [CTQ2009-14565-C03-03, TEC2008-06574-C03-03]
- UCM-Santander [GR58-08-910072]
- China Scholarship Council [2009603025]
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Micropatterned molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) transmissive 2D diffraction gratings (DGs) are fabricated and evaluated as label-free antibiotic bio(mimetic)sensors. Polymeric gratings are prepared by using microtransfer molding based on SiO(2)/Si molds. The morphology of the MIP gratings is studied by optical and atomic force microscopes. MIP 2D-DGs exhibit 2D optical diffraction patterns, and measurement of changes in diffraction efficiency is used as sensor response. The refractive index of the micropatterned MIP material was estimated, via solvent index matching experiments, to be 1.486. Immersion of a MIP 2D-DG in different solutions of target-antibiotic enrofloxacin leads to significant variations in diffraction efficiency, demonstrating target-molecule detection. On the other hand, no significant response is observed for both control experiments: MIP grating exposed to a non-retained analyte and an equivalent non-imprinted polymer grating exposed to the target analyte, showing highly specific antibiotic label-free optical recognition. (c) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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