Regulating immobilization performance of metal-organic coordination polymers through pre-coordination for biosensing.

We propose a method for regulating biomolecules immobilization performance of metal-organic coordination polymers (MOCPs) through pre-coordination for highly sensitive biosensing. 2,5-dimercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole (DMcT) was used as organic monomers. Firstly, using CuCl as the source of metal ions to form short oligomers with DMcT (MOCPs), which can regulate the length of ligands through pre-coordination. Then exploiting NaAuCl as the source of Au ions to coordinate both short oligomers and biomolecules (MOCPs), since Au ions can coordinate with both N and S atoms. Through controlling the concentration of CuCl, oligomers with desired length could be readily obtained to prepare MOCPs framework with controllable porosity and enzyme entrapment efficiency. Thus MOCPs offers several advantages including improved mass transfer efficiency and biocatalytic sensitivity than conventional MOCPs using single metal ions. Glucose oxidase (GOx) was used as the representative biomolecule, the entrapment ratio of enzyme in MOCPs case reached an extreme value of 100%. These MOCPs biocomposites modified electrode also showed greatly enhanced biocatalytic sensitivity (127 μA cm mM) and very low detection limit (58 nM), compared with those reported analogues. The new materials/strategy may create new avenue to regulate the performance of ligand-constructed polymers and their composites for entrapment-based applications.