Proceedings of The 10th International Conference on Research in Engineering, Science and Technology
Year: 2020
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Enzymatic Electrochemical Detection of Hydrogen Peroxide Using Carbon Nano-Structures
Samet Şahin
ABSTRACT:
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a well-known oxidant and an important substance for many environmental and medical applications. Therefore, the detection of H2O2 from environmental samples and biological fluids can be important for monitoring environmental quality and effects of several diseases, respectively. Several different detection mechanisms have been reported in the literature for the detection of H2O2 including spectrometric, chromatographic and electrochemical. Among all these methodologies, electrochemical methods stand out because they can provide high sensitivity, reproducibility and simplicity. Enzymatic detection of H2O2 using electrochemical methods would also provide very high selectivity. The most widely used enzyme for the detection of H2O2 is horseradish peroxidase (HRP) due to providing direct electron transfer mechanism which makes the biosensor construction steps less complicated. In this work, a simple immobilization of HRP was performed on carbon nano-structured screen-printed electrodes (SPEs) and sensitive detection of H2O2 was then achieved at physiological conditions. Modified SPEs were first electrochemically optimized and obtained films showed good stability and linearity with increased material loading. The successful immobilization of the HRP was then achieved on modified SPEs. Finally, the enzymatic detection of H2O2 was successfully achieved using electrochemical methods. The constructed biosensor showed a reproducible linear response to varying amounts of H2O2 and low cross-interference for the substances tested. The constructed biosensor could pave the way forward for both environmental and medical H2O2 screening applications.
Keywords: biosensor; enzyme immobilization; horseradish peroxide; hydrogen peroxide; screen-printed electrode.