Multi-walled carbon nanotube-chitosan/poly(amidoamine)/DNA nanocomposite modified gold electrode for determination of dopamine and uric acid under coexistence of ascorbic acid

Abstract

A novel bio-composite film which contains multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWNT)-chitosan (Chit)/poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) nanocomposite along with the incorporation of DNA modified Au electrode as a biosensor for determination of dopamine(DA) and uric acid (UA) under coexistence of ascorbic acid (AA) was fabricated by layer-by-layer modification. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and Cyclic Voltametry (CV) were used to characterize the electrochemical properties of the modified electrodes. The biosensor was applied to detect DA and UA in the presence of AA. It not only exhibited strong catalytic activity toward the oxidation of DA and UA but also separated the originally overlapped signals of UA, DA and AA oxidation at the bare electrode into three well-defined peaks. The peak separation between AA and DA, AA and UA was 179mV and 288mV, respectively. In the presence of 1.0mM AA, two linear relationships were obtained for DA over the concentration range from 0.2 to 10μM (R=0.9984) and 10–100μM (R=0.9957) with a detection limit of 0.03μM (s/n=3). The anodic peak current of UA was also a linear relationship in the concentration range 0.5–100μM (R=0.9971) with a detection limit of 0.07μΜ. Moreover, the modified electrode surface has very good reproducibility and stability.