Abstract
This paper presents a highly sensitive dopamine microelectrode fabricated by self-assembly of graphene on a gold electrode with polystyrene shrink polymer substrate. Nano graphene wrinkles and gaps are formed on the rough gold layer after shrinkage, significantly enhancing the sensor performance for dopamine detection. Compared with the bare gold electrode, the normalized sensitivity of graphene-shrink electrode improved over 130 times from 0.22 nA•μM-1•mm-2 to 28.77 nA•μM-1•mm-2. The detection limit of dopamine achieved 5 nM, meeting the in-vivo detection requirements. The sensitivity of the shrink electrode increased 23 times from 0.22 nA•μM-1•mm-2 to 5.05 nA•μM-1•mm-2. This simple dopamine sensor with high sensitivity and low detection limit can be widely used in real-time dopamine recording.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | 2019 20th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems and Eurosensors XXXIII, TRANSDUCERS 2019 and EUROSENSORS XXXIII |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| Pages | 1120-1123 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781728120072 |
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| State | Published - Jun 2019 |
| Event | 20th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems and Eurosensors XXXIII, TRANSDUCERS 2019 and EUROSENSORS XXXIII - Berlin, Germany Duration: Jun 23 2019 → Jun 27 2019 |
Publication series
| Name | 2019 20th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems and Eurosensors XXXIII, TRANSDUCERS 2019 and EUROSENSORS XXXIII |
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Conference
| Conference | 20th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems and Eurosensors XXXIII, TRANSDUCERS 2019 and EUROSENSORS XXXIII |
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| Country/Territory | Germany |
| City | Berlin |
| Period | 6/23/19 → 6/27/19 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors greatly appreciate the valuable discussion with Professors Zhiyi Sha and Thomas Henry in Medical School and Professor Tay Netoff in Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. The authors also thank the help from Mr. Peng Zhou for the mask fabrication and Mr. Qingyuan Liu for the sputtering process. The first author acknowledges the support from the joint PhD Training Program from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
Keywords
- Dopamine
- Graphene
- High sensitivity
- Nano wrinkle
- Shrink