Gao Yong-Ping, Zeng Meng, Huang Ke-Jing, Li Guoqiang
School of Science, Beibu Gulf University, Qinzhou, 535011, PR China.
School of Science and Engineering, Xinyang University, Xinyang, 464000, PR China.
Mikrochim Acta. 2025 Sep 16;192(10):672. doi: 10.1007/s00604-025-07498-y.
Self-powered electrochemical biosensors have emerged as a cutting-edge direction in disease biomarker detection due to their miniaturization potential and external power-free characteristics. Enzymatic biofuel cell-based self-powered biosensors (EBFC-SPB), a green energy conversion device that utilizes biological enzymes as catalysts to directly convert bioenergy into electricity, have become a new research hotspot owing to its operational simplicity, biocompatibility, and efficient performance in both plants and animals. However, challenges such as suboptimal catalytic efficiency, limited open-circuit voltage, and low power output have hindered its applications in human health monitoring. In recent years, researchers have developed various sensitization-enhancement strategies (including nanomaterial sensitization, nucleic acid signal amplification, enzyme catalytic enhancement, energy storage/conversion optimization, and synergistic multi-strategy approaches) to improve EBFC-SPB's detection capabilities and expand its practical applications in biofluids (such as blood, sweat, saliva, tears, interstitial fluid, and urine), thereby making significant contributions to real-time tracking and accurate detection of disease biomarkers. This review summarizes the working principles of EBFCs, analyzes the design rationale of multi-strategy synergistic sensitization in EBFC-SPB, examines its applications in human disease biomarker detection, and prospects its future research directions and potential applications.
自供电电化学生物传感器因其潜在的小型化和无需外部电源的特性,已成为疾病生物标志物检测领域的一个前沿方向。基于酶生物燃料电池的自供电生物传感器(EBFC-SPB)是一种绿色能量转换装置,它利用生物酶作为催化剂将生物能直接转化为电能,由于其操作简便、生物相容性好以及在动植物体内均具有高效性能,已成为一个新的研究热点。然而,诸如催化效率欠佳、开路电压有限以及功率输出较低等挑战阻碍了其在人体健康监测中的应用。近年来,研究人员开发了各种增敏策略(包括纳米材料增敏、核酸信号放大、酶催化增强、能量存储/转换优化以及多策略协同方法)来提高EBFC-SPB的检测能力,并扩大其在生物流体(如血液、汗液、唾液、眼泪、间质液和尿液)中的实际应用,从而为疾病生物标志物的实时追踪和准确检测做出了重大贡献。本综述总结了EBFC的工作原理,分析了EBFC-SPB中多策略协同增敏的设计原理,考察了其在人类疾病生物标志物检测中的应用,并展望了其未来的研究方向和潜在应用。