Pt@Tetraphenyl-1,3-butadiene Nanocrystals with Coreaction Acceleration and Crystallization-Induced Enhanced Electrochemiluminescence for Ultrasensitive MicroRNA Detection

Anal Chem. 2022 Oct 25;94(42):14666-14674. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.2c02911. Epub 2022 Oct 16.

Abstract

Herein, Pt@tetraphenyl-1,3-butadiene nanocrystals (Pt@TPB NCs) with high electrochemiluminescence (ECL) efficiencies as ECL emitters were developed to construct an ultrasensitive biosensing platform for the detection of microRNA-21 (miRNA-21). Interestingly, Pt@TPB NCs not only exhibited high carrier densities and electron mobilities to achieve efficient electron-hole pair recombinations for high ECL emission but also served as coreaction accelerators of endogenous coreactant-dissolved O2 with good electrocatalytic activities to produce abundant reactive oxygen species (ROS) for facilitating the interactions between TPB NCs and ROS, which further obtain intense ECL emission. Impressively, Pt@TPB NCs with dissolved O2 as coreactants displayed high ECL efficiencies (ΦECL) of 7.83, taking the ΦECL of Ru(bpy)32+/dissolved O2 ECL system as 1. Herein, Pt@TPB NCs with strong ECL signals were used as ECL emitters to combine target-induced DNA walker amplification with high conversion efficiency for the construction of an ultrasensitive ECL biosening platform which accomplished microRNA-21 detection with a low detection limit of 83.8 aM. Therefore, the developed synergy effects in Pt@TPB NCs are expected to guide the progress of highly efficient ECL emitters for sensing analysis and disease diagnosis.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Acceleration
  • Biosensing Techniques*
  • Crystallization
  • DNA / chemistry
  • Electrochemical Techniques
  • Limit of Detection
  • Luminescent Measurements
  • MicroRNAs* / analysis
  • Nanoparticles* / chemistry
  • Reactive Oxygen Species

Substances

  • MicroRNAs
  • 1,3-butadiene
  • Reactive Oxygen Species
  • DNA