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Sinan Fu1, Chang Xie2, Zhiruo Yang1
1Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Occupational Hazard Identification and Control, School of Medicine, School of Public Health, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430065, PR China.
Abstract:
Previous researches have suggested the potential correlation between the development of breast cancer and the concentration of miRNA-21 in serum. Theoretically the doping of multivalent metal ions in WS2 could bring higher electron transfer capacity, but this hasn't been proven. To fill this research gap, through one-pot method we prepared seven nanocomposite structures modified with different metal ions (Co2+, Ni2+, Mn2+, Zn2+, Fe3+, Cr3+, La3+). Characterization revealed that ammonia produced by hydrothermal urea exfoliated the multilayer graphene oxide (MGO) and provided a nitrogen source for doping reduction to form a 3D flower-like structure (NrGOF) with high specific surface area. Meanwhile, the modification of WS2 by Fe3+ not only enhanced its electrochemical conductivity but also gave the material an additional peroxidase activity centre. In the composite Fe3+-WS2/NrGOF-AgNPs, NrGOF is used as a conductive loading interface for WS2, while Fe3+ served as the catalytic and electron transfer centre for secondary amplification of the electrochemical signal. The experimental results showed that the sensing platform has a low limit of detection (LOD) of 1.18 aM for miRNA-21 in the concentration range of 10-17-10-12 M and has been successfully applied to the detection of real serum samples.
