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NiO Nanoparticles for Electrochemical Insulin Detection

Authors

SHEPA Jana ŠIŠOLÁKOVÁ Ivana VOJTKO Marek TRNKOVÁ Libuše NAGY Géza MASKAĽOVÁ Iveta ORIŇAK Andrej ORIŇAKOVÁ Renáta

Year of publication 2021
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Sensors
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Science

Citation
Web https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/15/5063
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21155063
Keywords NiO nanoparticles; insulin; electrochemical sensor
Description Diabetes mellitus represents one of the most widespread diseases in civilization nowadays. Since the costs for treating and diagnosing of diabetes represent several billions of dollars per year, a cheap, fast, and simple sensor for diabetes diagnosis is needed. Electrochemical insulin sensors can be considered as a novel approach for diabetes diagnosis. In this study, carbon electrode with electrodeposited NiO nanoparticles was selected as a suitable electrode material for insulin determination. The morphology and surface composition were studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). For a better understanding of insulin determination on NiO-modified electrodes, the mechanism of electrochemical reaction and the kinetic parameters were studied. They were calculated from both voltammetric and amperometric measurements. The modified carbon electrode displayed a wide linear range from 600 nM to 10 µM, a low limit of detection of 19.6 nM, and a high sensitivity of 7.06 µA/µM. The electrodes were stable for 30 cycles and were able to detect insulin even in bovine blood serum. Additionally, the temperature stability of this electrode and its storage conditions were studied with appropriate outcomes. The above results show the high promise of this electrode for detecting insulin in clinical samples.

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