• 文献标题:   A Smartphone-Interfaced, Flexible Electrochemical Biosensor Based on Graphene Ink for Selective Detection of Dopamine
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   MURALIDHARAN R, CHANDRASHEKHAR V, BUTLER D, EBRAHIMI A
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, ink, electrode, polyimide, annealing, biosensor, dopamine, electrochemical, flexible sensor, graphene ink, smartphone
  • 出版物名称:   IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
  • ISSN:   1530-437X EI 1558-1748
  • 通讯作者地址:   Penn State Univ
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1109/JSEN.2020.3005171
  • 出版年:   2020

▎ 摘  要

This study reports the fabrication of flexible electrochemical dopamine sensors using a facile, low temperature (300 degrees C) process based on spin-coating of commercially available graphene ink onto a polyimide (PI) substrate. The electrochemical testing and surface characterization were achieved using cyclic voltammetry (CV), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and atomic force microscopy (AFM). The graphene-ink based biosensor demonstrated a limit of detection (LoD) of 100 nM of dopamine in PBS and a dynamic concentration range up to 1 mM, with excellent specificity against uric acid and ascorbic acid. The sensor is also resilient against mechanical deformation (< 12% change in peak currents during maximum bending). Furthermore, we demonstrated that a subsequent solution-phase treatment of graphene ink in copper sulfate (CuSO4) followed by annealing in air at 200 degrees C improves the sensor LoD from 1 mu m to 5 nM in artificial sweat. Wireless data transfer via Wi-Fi in tandem with an on-chip sensor integrated with an in-house built potentiostat is also developed to demonstrate the applicability of the platform for point-of-care applications.