Key Laboratory of Luminescence Analysis and Molecular Sensing, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, P. R. China.
Anal Chem. 2022 Oct 25;94(42):14666-14674. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c02911. Epub 2022 Oct 16.
Herein, Pt@tetraphenyl-1,3-butadiene nanocrystals (Pt@TPB NCs) with high electrochemiluminescence (ECL) efficiencies as ECL emitters were developed to construct an ultrasensitive biosensing platform for the detection of microRNA-21 (miRNA-21). Interestingly, Pt@TPB NCs not only exhibited high carrier densities and electron mobilities to achieve efficient electron-hole pair recombinations for high ECL emission but also served as coreaction accelerators of endogenous coreactant-dissolved O with good electrocatalytic activities to produce abundant reactive oxygen species (ROS) for facilitating the interactions between TPB NCs and ROS, which further obtain intense ECL emission. Impressively, Pt@TPB NCs with dissolved O as coreactants displayed high ECL efficiencies (Φ) of 7.83, taking the Φ of Ru(bpy)/dissolved O ECL system as 1. Herein, Pt@TPB NCs with strong ECL signals were used as ECL emitters to combine target-induced DNA walker amplification with high conversion efficiency for the construction of an ultrasensitive ECL biosening platform which accomplished microRNA-21 detection with a low detection limit of 83.8 aM. Therefore, the developed synergy effects in Pt@TPB NCs are expected to guide the progress of highly efficient ECL emitters for sensing analysis and disease diagnosis.
在此,我们开发了具有高电化学发光 (ECL) 效率的 Pt@四苯基-1,3-丁二烯纳米晶体 (Pt@TPB NCs) 作为 ECL 发射器,构建了用于检测 microRNA-21 (miRNA-21) 的超灵敏生物传感平台。有趣的是,Pt@TPB NCs 不仅表现出高载流子密度和电子迁移率,以实现高效的电子-空穴对复合,从而实现高 ECL 发射,而且还作为内源性共反应剂溶解 O 的核心反应加速剂,具有良好的电催化活性,产生丰富的活性氧 (ROS),促进 TPB NCs 和 ROS 之间的相互作用,从而获得更强的 ECL 发射。令人印象深刻的是,以溶解 O 作为共反应剂的 Pt@TPB NCs 表现出高 ECL 效率 (Φ) 为 7.83,以 Ru(bpy)/溶解 O ECL 体系的 Φ 为 1。在此,具有强 ECL 信号的 Pt@TPB NCs 被用作 ECL 发射器,将目标诱导的 DNA walker 扩增与高转化率结合起来,构建了超灵敏的 ECL 生物传感平台,实现了对 microRNA-21 的检测,检测限低至 83.8 aM。因此,Pt@TPB NCs 中这种协同效应有望指导用于传感分析和疾病诊断的高效 ECL 发射器的发展。