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Bismuthoxyiodide Nanoflakes/Titania Nanotubes Arrayed p-n Heterojunction and Its Application for Photoelectrochemical Bioanalysis.
- Source :
- Scientific Reports; 3/21/2014, p1-6, 6p
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- We have developed sensitive detection of cancer biomarker vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) using the p-n heterojunction comprised of p-type BiOI nanoflakes (NFs) array and n-type TiO<subscript>2</subscript> nanotubes (NTs) array. Due to the unique arrayed structure and the synergy effect of photoelectrochemistry in the formed p-n junction, the synthesized configuration has superior excitation efficiency and thus excellent photoresponsibility. Then, the fabricated p-n heterojunction was integrated with an exquisite bioassay protocol for addressing VEGF using a sandwich immunoassay with glucosedehydrogenase (GDH) as the enzyme tags. Due to the excellent performance of BiOI NFs array/TiO<subscript>2</subscript> NTs array and the ingenious signaling mechanism, the proposed system could achieve the sensitive and specific VEGF detection. This work not only presents a simple BiOI NFs array/TiO<subscript>2</subscript> NTs array p-n heterojunction for general applications in the broad photochemistry areas, but also opens a different horizon for current development of advanced PEC biomolecular detection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20452322
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Scientific Reports
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 95547452
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/srep04426