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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 87, Issue 5, Pages 2615-2622Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b00012
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- Natural Science Foundation of China [21175002]
- Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University [NCET-12-0599]
- Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Youth [1108085J09]
- SRF for ROCS, SEM
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Utilization of carbon nanodots (CNDs), newcomers to the world of carbonaceous nanomaterials, in the electrochemistry realm has rarely been reported so far. In this study, CNDs were used as immobilization supports and electron carriers to promote direct electron transfer (DET) reactions of glucose oxidase (GOx) and bilirubin oxidase (BOD). At the CNDs electrode entrapped with GOx, a high rate constant (k(s)) of 6.28 +/- 0.05 s(-1) for fast DET and an apparent Michaelis-Menten constant (K-M(app)) as low as 0.85 +/- 0.03 mM for affinity to glucose were found. By taking advantage of its excellent direct bioelectrocatalytic performances to glucose oxidation, a DET-based biosensor for glucose detection ranging from 0 to 0.64 mM with a high sensitivity of 6.1 mu A mM(-1) and a limit of detection (LOD) of 1.07 +/- 0.03 mu M (S/N = 3) was proposed. Additionally, the promoted DET of BOD immobilized on CNDs was also observed and effectively catalyzed the reduction of oxygen to water at the onset potential of +0.51 V (vs Ag/AgCl). On the basis of the facilitated DET of these two enzymes at CNDs electrodes, a mediator-free DET-type glucose/air enzymatic biofuel cell (BFC), in which CNDs electrodes entrapped with GOx and BOD were employed for oxidizing glucose at the bioanode and reducing oxygen at the biocathode, respectively, was successfully fabricated. The constructed BFC displayed an open-circuit voltage (OCV) as high as 0.93 V and a maximum power density of 40.8 mu W cm(-2) at 0.41 V. These important features of CNDs have implied to be promising materials for immobilizing enzymes and efficient platforms for elaborating bioelectrochemical devices such as biosensors and BFCs.
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