Advances in nanomaterial application in enzyme-based electrochemical biosensors: a review

Abstract

Electrochemical enzyme-based biosensors are one of the largest and commercially successful groups of biosensors. Integration of nanomaterials in the biosensors results in significant improvement of biosensor sensitivity, limit of detection, stability, response rate and other analytical characteristics. Thus, new functional nanomaterials are key components of numerous biosensors. However, due to the great variety of available nanomaterials, they should be carefully selected according to the desired effects. The present review covers the recent applications of various types of nanomaterials in electrochemical enzyme-based biosensors for the detection of small biomolecules, environmental pollutants, food contaminants, and clinical biomarkers. Benefits and limitations of using nanomaterials for analytical purposes are discussed. Furthermore, we highlight specific properties of different nanomaterials, which are relevant to electrochemical biosensors. The review is structured according to the types of nanomaterials. We describe the application of inorganic nanomaterials, such as gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), platinum nanoparticles (PtNPs), silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), and palladium nanoparticles (PdNPs), zeolites, inorganic quantum dots, and organic nanomaterials, such as single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), carbon and graphene quantum dots, graphene, fullerenes, and calixarenes. Usage of composite nanomaterials is also presented. ). S. Dzyadevych is also working as a deputy director of the same institute since 2019. They received PhD degrees in biotechnology. They are developing electrochemical enzyme-based biosensors for medical, research, and industrial applications. The biosensors are based on amperometric, ISFET, and conductometric transducers and immobilized enzymes.a AgNPssilver nanoparticles; AuNPsgold nanoparticles; CNTscarbon nanotubes; NADHreduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide; PdNPs palladium nanoparticles; PtNPsplatinum nanoparticles; QDsquantum dots.This journal is Fig. 1 Ways of embedding NMs in the enzyme-based biosensors. (a) Enzyme immobilization on the NM-modified electrode. (b) Schematic of the biosensor based on phosphotriesterase (PTE) immobilized via glutaraldehyde on the graphene surface with platinum nanoparticles. Reprinted with permission from . 25 (c) Enzyme/NM co-immobilization on the electrode. (d) Schematic of the biosensor based on glucose oxidase encapsulated in a chitosan-kappa-carrageenan bionanocomposite. Reprinted from Material Science and Engineering: C, 95, I. Rassas, M. Braiek, A. Bonhomme, F. Bessueille, G. Rafin, H. Majdoub, and N. Jaffrezic-Renault, Voltammetric glucose biosensor based on glucose oxidase encapsulation in a chitosan-kappa-carrageenan polyelectrolyte complex, 152-159, Copyright (2018), with permission from Elsevier. 26 4562 | Nanoscale Adv., 2019, 1, 4560-4577 This journal is Fig. 5 Schematics of the hydrogen peroxide biosensor based on oligoaniline-cross-linked HRP/CNT composite and cyclic voltammograms of the bio...

Development Perspective of Bioelectrocatalysis-Based Biosensors

“…The coupling of redox enzymatic reactions with electrochemical reactions has received worldwide medical and scientific interests [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ]. The coupled reaction is called bioelectrocatalysis.…”

“…However, the response of an amperometric sensor depends on detection time, which limits practical application [ 4 , 9 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 26 , 32 , 33 ]. It is necessary for amperometric sensors to obtain steady-state currents.…”

3D Hydrogen Titanate Nanotubes on Ti Foil: A Carrier for Enzymatic Glucose Biosensor

“…Nanomaterials are a popular carrier because of their large surface area [8,9]. At present, the application of enzyme electrodes based on nanomaterials has been widely explored [10].…”

Development Perspective of Bioelectrocatalysis-based Biosensors

“…The coupling of redox enzymatic reactions with electrochemical reactions has received worldwide medical and scientific interests [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. The coupled reaction is called bioelectrocatalysis.…”

“…The response of an amperometric sensor, however, depends on the detection time, and it limits the practical application [4,9,[11][12][13]26,32,33]. It is necessary for amperometric sensors to obtain steady-state currents.…”