Over the last decade, immobilization of proteins onto inorganic materials is becoming more crucial to extend a deep understanding of interaction between proteins and nanoparticles. With understanding of the real interaction lying under the protein-nanoparticle relations, it is possible to organize the conformation and orientation of surface and framework species of nanoparticles to generate ideal surfaces for potential biotechnological applications. Due to their unique properties such as large clean surface, tunable surface properties, adjustable surface charge, and dispersibility in aqueous solutions, zeolite and zeo-type materials are one of the remarkable classes of inorganic materials that are widely studied in the literature. These properties make zeolites promising alternative candidates for the immobilization of enzymes and incorporation into biosensing devices.
In the current study, a new approach was developed for direct determination of urea, glucose, and butyrylcholine where zeolites were incorporated to the electrode surfaces of a conductometric biosensor and Ion Sensitive Field Effect Transistors were used to immobilize the enzymes. Biosensor responses, operational stabilities, and storage stabilities of the new approach were compared with results obtained from the standard membrane methods for the same measurements. For this purpose, different surface modification technique, which are simply named as Zeolite Modified Transducers (ZMTs) were compared with Standard Membrane Transducers (SMTs). During the conductometric measurements ZMT electrodes were used, which allowed the direct evaluation of the effect of zeolite morphology on the biosensor responses for the first time. It was seen that silicalite added electrodes lead to increased performances with respect to SMTs. As a result, the zeolite modified urea and glucose biosensors were successfully applied for detecting urea and glucose, which can offer improved possibilities to design biosensors. The results obtained show that zeolites could be used as alternatives for enzyme immobilization in conductometric biosensors development.
Furthermore, the sensitivities of urease and butyrylcholinesterase biosensors, prepared by the incorporation of zeolite Beta crystals with varying acidity on the surface of pH-sensitive
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613313/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 July 2011 |
| Creators | Soy, Esin |
| Contributors | Akata Kurc, Burcu |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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