Abstract
A biosensor for the determination of urea in human serum was fabricated using a combination of inkjet printed polyaniline nanoparticles and inkjet printed urease enzyme deposited sequentially onto screen-printed carbon paste electrodes. Chronocoulometry was used to measure the decomposition of urea via the doping of ammonium at the polyaniline-modified electrode surface at -0.3V vs. Ag/AgCl. Ammonium could be measured in the range from 0.1 to 100mM. Urea could be measured by the sensor in the range of 2-12mM (r2=0.98). The enzyme biosensor was correlated against a spectrophotometric assay for urea in 15 normal human serum samples which yielded a correlation coefficient of 0.85. Bland-Altman plots showed that in the range of 5.8-6.6mM urea, the developed sensor had an average positive experimental bias of 0.12mM (<2% RSD) over the reference method.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 98-102 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Analytica Chimica Acta |
| Volume | 697 |
| Issue number | 1-2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 4 Jul 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Chronocoulometry
- Inkjet
- Nanoparticle
- Polyaniline
- Urea