Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6613590 | Electrochimica Acta | 2014 | 31 Pages |
Abstract
This paper reports the fabrication of highly-sensitive and selective voltammetric/amperometric cholesterol biosensor based on cholesterol oxidase co-immobilized with α-Fe2O3 micro-pine shaped hierarchical structures. The α-Fe2O3 micro-pine shaped hierarchical structures were synthesized by facile hydrothermal process in large quantity and characterized in detail using various techniques. The detailed studies demonstrated that the as-synthesized α-Fe2O3 hierarchical structures are grown in very high density exhibiting well-crystallinity and demonstrating rhombohedral α-Fe2O3 crystal structures. The fabricated cholesterol biosensors based on α-Fe2O3 hierarchical structures exhibited a very high and reproducible sensitivity of 78.56 μA/mMcm2 and detection limit (based on S/N ratio) of 0.018 mM. The biosensor exhibited a linear dynamic range from 0.1-8.0 mM and correlation coefficient of R = 0.9951. A lower value of apparent Michaelis-Menten constant (Kmapp), of 0.007 mM, exhibited a high affinity between the cholesterol and ChOx immobilized on α-Fe2O3 micro-pine shaped hierarchical structures. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report in which α-Fe2O3 micro-pine shaped hierarchical structures are used for the fabrication of highly sensitive and selective cholesterol biosensor.
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Authors
Ahmad Umar, Rafiq Ahmad, S.W. Hwang, S.H. Kim, A. Al-Hajry, Y.B. Hahn,