Switching of directions of bioelectrocatalytic currents and photocurrents at electrode surfaces by using hydrophobic magnetic nanoparticles.
Switching of directions of bioelectrocatalytic currents and photocurrents at electrode surfaces by using hydrophobic magnetic nanoparticles.
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200501126
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发表时间:
2005-07
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通讯作者:
E. Katz;I. Willner
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作者:
E. Katz;I. Willner
Magnetic particles—microspheres, nanospheres, and ferrofluids—are widely studied and applied in various fields of biology and medicine, such as magnetic targeting (drugs, genes, radiopharmaceuticals), magnetic resonance imaging, diagnostics, immunoassays, RNA and DNA purification, gene cloning, and cell separation and purification.[1] Extensive research efforts were recently directed towards the application of functionalized magnetic particles for controlling electrochemical transformations at electrode interfaces or chemical reactivity at solid supports.[2] The magnetic attraction or retraction of magnetic particles that are functionalized with redox units to and from electrode surfaces was used to switch “on” and “off” redox processes and subsequently activate/deactivate bioelectrocatalytic transformations.[3] Similarly, catalytic magnetic particles such as nickel nanoparticles were used to switch on and off electrocatalytic processes at electrode supports by using an external magnet.[4] The rotation of magnetic particles on electrode supports was reported to enhance electrocatalytic and bioelectrocatalytic processes by the hydrodynamic transport of the reacting substrates to the electrode.[5] Enhanced electrochemically generated chemiluminescence was reported in the presence of rotating magnetic particles,[6] and the system was employed for the amplified detection of DNA,[6, 7] antigen–antibody complexes,[6] and cancer cells.[8] Recently, magnetic nanoparticles with a hydrophobic capping layer were employed to reversibly separate surfaceconfined and diffusional redox processes at electrodes.[9, 10] By dissolving the hydrophobic magnetic nanoparticles in an organic phase, the magnetic nanoparticles were transported to the electrode surface with a colayer of hydrophobic solvent. This layer enabled a change of electrochemical processes of the electrode-confined species from aqueous type to organic-phase type, and the co-transport of hydrophobic substrates to the electrode surfaces allowed switchable electrocatalysis.[10]