Preparation and characterization of COOH-G/Au@Ag nanocomposites and its electrogenerated chemiluminescence sensing for glucose

Abstract An electrochemiluminescence (ECL) sensor was developed with carboxylated graphene-loaded Au@Ag core-shell nanoparticles. Scanning electron microscope (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), transmission electron microscope (TEM) and inductive coupling plasma (ICP) were applied to characterizing COOH-G/Au@Ag nanocomposites. Electrochemical performance of the nanocomposites was evaluated by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). Based on ECL experimental results, we can find COOH-G/@Au@Ag nanocomposites have good electrocatalytic ability for glucose, so we construct a glucose electrochemiluminescence (ECL) sensor. When the glucose concentration range is from 0.005 to 1500 μM, the linear response of ECL intensity to glucose concentration was valid with detection limit of 0.02 μM. In addition, the developed sensor not only has good stability, repeatability and sensitivity for the detection of glucose, but also can be successfully used for glucose monitoring in human serum samples.