Fabrication and characterization of vertically aligned carbon nanofibers as a biosensor platform for hypoglycemia
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- MacArthur, Kimberly C.; Tulip, Fahmida S.; Mamun, Khandaker A. Al; McFarlane, Nicole; Islam, Syed K.
- Source
- 2012 Lester Eastman Conference on High Performance Devices (LEC) Lester Eastman Conference on High Performance Devices (LEC), 2012. :1-4 Aug, 2012
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Sugar
Biosensors
Electrodes
Carbon
Diabetes
Silicon
vertically aligned carbon nanofibers
VACNF
glucose biosensor
glucose oxidase
horseradish peroxidase
hypoglycemia
- Language
This paper proposes a biosensor platform based on vertically aligned carbon nanofibers (VACNFs) for selective and sensitive detection of low levels of glucose to monitor the risks of hypoglycemia. Two enzymes, horseradish peroxidase and glucose oxidase, are co-immobilized on the nanofiber electrodes to make an electrochemical amperometric bienzymatic glucose biosensor. Experimental results indicate that the biosensor can detect glucose at the hypoglycemia levels (below 3.88 mM or 70 mg/dL).