• 文献标题:   Electrical Biosensing at Physiological Ionic Strength Using Graphene Field-Effect Transistor in Femtoliter Microdroplet
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ONO T, KANAI Y, INOUE K, WATANABE Y, NAKAKITA S, KAWAHARA T, SUZUKI Y, MATSUMOTO K
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, droplet, enzymatic reaction, debye screening, helicobacter pylori
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
  • 通讯作者地址:   Osaka Univ
  • 被引频次:   7
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b01335
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

Graphene has strong potential for electrical biosensing owing to its two-dimensional nature and high carrier mobility which transduce the direct contact of a detection target with a graphene channel to a large conductivity change in a graphene field-effect transistor (GFET). However, the measurable range from the graphene surface is highly restricted by Debye screening, whose characteristic length is less than 1 nm at physiological ionic strength. Here, we demonstrated electrical biosensing utilizing the enzymatic products of the target. We achieved quantitative measurements of a target based on the site-binding model and real-time measurement of the enzyme kinetics in femtoliter microdroplets. The combination of a G-FET and microfluidics, named a "lab-on-a-graphene-FET", detected the enzyme urease with high sensitivity in the zeptomole range in 100 mM sodium phosphate buffer. Also, the lab-on-a-graphene-FET detected the gastric cancer pathogen Helicobacter pylori captured at a distance greater than the Debye screening length from the G-FET.