Electrocatalytic reduction of coreactant by highly loaded dendrimer-encapsulated palladium nanoparticles for sensitive electrochemiluminescent immunoassay

Chem Commun (Camb). 2012 Sep 21;48(73):9159-61. doi: 10.1039/c2cc34221a. Epub 2012 Aug 6.

Abstract

Dendrimer-encapsulated palladium nanoparticles anchored on a carbon nanohorn were designed as a nonenzymatic tracing tag for sensitive quantum dot-based electrochemiluminescent immunoassay by electrocatalytic reduction of dissolved O(2) as the coreactant.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Carbon / chemistry
  • Carcinoembryonic Antigen / analysis*
  • Carcinoembryonic Antigen / immunology
  • Dendrimers / chemistry*
  • Electrochemical Techniques / instrumentation*
  • Humans
  • Immunoassay / instrumentation*
  • Limit of Detection
  • Nanoparticles / chemistry*
  • Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Oxidation-Reduction
  • Oxygen / chemistry
  • Palladium / chemistry*
  • Quantum Dots

Substances

  • Carcinoembryonic Antigen
  • Dendrimers
  • Palladium
  • Carbon
  • Oxygen