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Facile fabrication of visible light photoelectrochemical immunosensor for SCCA detection based on BiOBr/Bi2S3
Dawei Fan1, Chunzhu Bao1, Xin Liu1
1Key Laboratory of Interfacial Reaction & Sensing Analysis in Universities of Shandong, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Jinan, Jinan 250022, PR China.
Abstract:
A novel visible light photoelectrochemical immunosensor based on BiOBr/Bi2S3 heterostructures was fabricated to detect squamous cell carcinoma antigen (SCCA). Bi2S3 nanoparticles formed on the BiOBr microflowers by the self-sacrificial synthesis method based on the facile reaction between BiOBr and S2- ions. The BiOBr/Bi2S3 composites exhibited excellent visible light photoelectrochemical activity, when ascorbic acid (AA) was employed as a perfect electron donor. The photocurrent intensity of BiOBr/Bi2S3 modified ITO electrode arrived at around 20 µA, which was approximately 30 times than that of pure BiOBr. Dopamine formed easily polydopamine film via self-polymerization on the surface of BiOBr/Bi2S3 composites to immobilize SCCA antibody. Under the optimal condition, this photoelectrochemical immunosensor realized the ultrasensitive determination of SCCA. With the logarithm of SCCA concentration in the range of 0.001-75 ng mL-1, the specific binding between SCCA and antibody led to the linearly decrease of photocurrent signal with a low detection limit of 0.3 pg mL-1 (S/N = 3). This facilely constructed photoelectrochemical immunosensor maybe have promising practical application in photocatalysis, analytical detection and biosensor, etc.
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