Highly sensitive and selective sensor probe using glucose oxidase/gold nanoparticles/graphene oxide functionalized tapered optical fiber structure for detection of glucose

Abstract

A tapered optical fiber structure based glucose sensor using graphene oxide (GO) and gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) is presented in this study. The waist diameter and length of the taper region are 25 μm and 6 mm, respectively. The taper region was created to expose the evanescent waves to the cladding boundaries and to get interact with the external medium. Further, the cladding of tapered region is covered with GO and AuNPs to increase the biocompatibility of sensor and to initiate the phenomenon of localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR), respectively. The synthesized GO and AuNPs show the good absorbance properties at the peak absorbance wavelengths of 230 nm and 519 nm, respectively. The characterization of synthesized nanomaterials was done by using UV–vis spectrophotometer and TEM. The characterization of nanomaterial coated fiber probe was done by using SEM and SEM-EDS. The specificity of developed sensor probe is enhanced by immobilizing them with the glucose oxidase enzyme, that oxidized only in the presence of glucose solution. The attained results show that the developed sensor model is highly sensitive for the detection of glucose concentrations in human bodies with a sensitivity of 1.06 nm/mM in the linear range of 0 mM–11 mM with the autocorrelation accuracy of 0.9386.