alterado para: “NANOZYME+ / Driving nanozymes towards stereochemical recognition: application to biomolecules of interest in health”; NANOZYME+ / Driving nanozymes towards stereochemical recognition: application to Glucose sensing

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Enzyme-Free Monitoring of Glucose Using Molecularly Imprinted Polymers and Gold Nanoparticles

Publication . Cardoso, Ana Rita Aires; Barquinha, Pedro Miguel Cândido; Sales, Maria Goreti Ferreira; CENIMAT-i3N - Centro de Investigação de Materiais (Lab. Associado I3N); UNINOVA-Instituto de Desenvolvimento de Novas Tecnologias; DCM - Departamento de Ciência dos Materiais; MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

This work describes a non-enzymatic electrochemical glucose biosensor combining for the first time molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) for glucose concentration and gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) on screen-printed carbon electrodes (SPEs), where both MIPs and AuNPs were assembled in situ. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) was used to evaluate the analytical performance of the sensor, which has a linear range between 1.0 µM and 1.0 mM when standard solutions are prepared in buffer. Direct measurement of glucose was performed by chronoamperometry, measuring the oxidation current generated during direct glucose oxidation. The selectivity was tested against ascorbic acid and the results confirmed a selective discrimination of the electrode for glucose. Overall, the work presented here represents a promising tool for tracking glucose levels in serum. The use of glucose MIP on the electrode surface allows the concentration of glucose, resulting in lower detection limits, and the use of AuNPs reduces the potential required for the oxidation of glucose, which increases selectivity. In addition, this possible combination of two analytical measurements following different theoretical concepts can contribute to the accuracy of the analytical measurements. This combination can also be extended to other biomolecules that can be electrochemically oxidised at lower potentials.

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COVID/BD/152729/2022