Electrocatalytic activity of carbon spheres towards NADH oxidation at low overpotential and its applications in biosensors and biofuel cells
Electrocatalytic activity of carbon spheres towards NADH oxidation at low overpotential and its applications in biosensors and biofuel cells
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低过电位碳球对NADH氧化的电催化活性及其在生物传感器和生物燃料电池中的应用
DOI:
10.1039/c1ra00444a
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发表时间:
2011-01-01
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3.9
通讯作者:
Wang, Lun
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作者:
Gao, Feng;Guo, Xinying;Wang, Lun
The excellent electrocatalytic activity of a micro-structured carbon material, carbon hollow spheres (CS), to the oxidation of dihydronicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) is demonstrated here. Compared to conventional bare glassy carbon electrodes, a substantial decrease by 450 mV in the overpotential of NADH electrooxidation was observed using CS coatings, with oxidation starting at ca. -0.10 V (vs. Ag/AgCl, pH 7.0). The CS-coated glassy carbon electrode (CS/GC) thus allows highly sensitive and direct amperometric detection of NADH at lower potential, ranging from 0.20 to 100 mu M with a high sensitivity of 7.3 +/- 0.2 nA mu M-1 (i.e., 103.3 +/- 2.8 nA mu M-1 cm(-2)), low detection limit of 0.08 +/- 0.03 mu M, and minimization of surface fouling. With lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) as a model, a lactate biosensor with the LDH-CS/GC electrode was constructed and the biosensor shows rapid and highly sensitive amperometric response to lactate ranging from 0.5 to 12 mM with a detection limit of 3.7 +/- 0.2 mu M, a sensitivity of 4.1 +/- 0.2 nA mu M-1 (i.e., 57.9 +/- 2.8 nA mu M-1 cm(-2)), good reproducibility and excellent stability. Furthermore, the promoted direct electron transfer (DET) of bilirubin oxidase (BOD) on CS/GC electrode was investigated, and thus a membrane-less lactate/oxygen biofuel cell was assembled by using LDH-CS/GC as bioanode for lactate oxidation and BOD-CS/GC electrode for oxygen reduction, with a high open-circuit potential of 0.60 V. Such ability of CS to decrease the NADH oxidation overpotential and promote DET of blue-copper oxidases suggests great promise for dehydrogenase-based amperometric biosensors and biofuel cells.