Silica Nanochannels as Nanoreactors for the Confined Synthesis of Ag NPs to Boost Electrochemical Stripping Chemiluminescence of the Luminol-O2 System for the Sensitive Aptasensor

Anal Chem. 2024 Jun 25;96(25):10264-10273. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.4c01033. Epub 2024 Jun 13.

Abstract

Herein, we, for the first time, synthesize silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) within the nanochannels of amino group-functionalized vertically ordered mesoporous silica films (NH2-VMSF) and investigate their coreaction accelerator role in the luminol-dissolved oxygen (O2) electrochemical stripping chemiluminescence (ESCL) system. The synthesized Ag NPs are capable of electrocatalytic reduction of O2 to superoxide radicals, and meanwhile, sliver ions (Ag+) electrochemically stripped from Ag NPs can promote the amount of luminol anion radicals, generating the boosted ECL intensity of the luminol-dissolved O2 system. This proposed Ag NPs@NH2-VMSF on the indium tin oxide electrode was applied to construct the ESCL aptasensor for quantitative determination of prostate-specific antigen (PSA), yielding a low detection limit [0.19 pg/mL (S/N = 3)] and a broad linear dynamic range (1 pg/mL to 100 ng/mL). Furthermore, good analytical performance of PSA in serum with satisfactory recoveries and low relative standard deviation values is achieved by our developed ESCL aptasensor, rendering it a convenient and sensitive method for PSA determination in clinical applications and further broadening the strategy of ESCL techniques.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Aptamers, Nucleotide* / chemistry
  • Biosensing Techniques
  • Electrochemical Techniques*
  • Electrodes
  • Humans
  • Limit of Detection
  • Luminescence
  • Luminescent Measurements*
  • Luminol* / chemistry
  • Metal Nanoparticles* / chemistry
  • Oxygen* / chemistry
  • Prostate-Specific Antigen / analysis
  • Prostate-Specific Antigen / blood
  • Silicon Dioxide* / chemistry
  • Silver* / chemistry

Substances

  • Silicon Dioxide
  • Luminol
  • Silver
  • Aptamers, Nucleotide
  • Oxygen
  • Prostate-Specific Antigen