A Novel Conjugated Polyfluorene: Synthesis, Characterization and Application in Flow Injection Electrochemiluminescence for Detection of Bovine Serum Albumin

Abstract

Driven by the urgent demand for novel electrochemiluminescence reagents, a water-soluble polyfluorene derivative, poly [(9,9-bis (3-((N,N-dimethylamino)N-ethy-lammonium) propyl)-2,7-fluorene)-alt-2,7-(9,9-p-divinylbenzene)] dibromide (P-2), was designed and success-fully synthesized. Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy and fluorescence spectroscopy were used to characterize the formation of P-2, and the results showed that P-2 had strong fluorescence intensity. More importantly, electrochemiluminescence (ECL) of the prepared P-2 was also observed when the applied potential was cycled between 1.0 to 2.8 V at 100 mV·s-1 in phosphate buffered saline buffer solution (pH 8.20). Based on the stable ECL performance, an ECL system for bovine serum albumin (BSA) was constructed. Under the optimal conditions, the enhanced ECL intensity was linearly correlated to the concentration of BSA over the range of 5.0×10-8-1×10-4 g·mL-1 (R=0.9996) with a detection limit of 1.26×10-8 g·mL-1 (n=11). This work not only introduced a substitute for traditional ECL regents, but also proposed a simple ECL system for other analytes.