Electro-Enzymatic Glucose Sensor Using Hybrid Polymer Fabrication Process

In this article, we present an electro-enzymatic glucose sensor fabricated using a novel self-aligned and hybrid polymer fabrication process. The self-aligned fabrication process was carried out using polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) as a process substrate material, SU-8 (a negative, epoxy based photoresist) as a sensor substrate material and gold as an electrode material. The electro-enzymatic glucose sensor was assembled from microfabricated components using a self-registration step. The sensor substrate is optically transparent and flexible. Utilizing the process, a wide range of bio-sensors for different constituents (e.g. lactate, pO2 etc.) can be fabricated. The glucose sensor was successfully fabricated using our new multilayer SU-8 process on PDMS substrate. The sensor thickness was measured between 117.15 mum and 140.15 mum. The current response of the multi-layer electroenzymatic sensor using different glucose concentrations is also measured. Besides, the current response for long term stability is also presented.

[1]  S. Mirov,et al.  Using two discrete frequencies within the middle infrared to quantitatively determine glucose in serum. , 2002, Journal of biomedical optics.

[2]  S. Page,et al.  Blood Glucose Monitoring: Does Technology Help? , 1993, Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association.

[3]  Joseph R. Lakowicz,et al.  Ophthalmic Glucose Monitoring Using Disposable Contact Lenses—A Review , 2004, Journal of Fluorescence.

[4]  Adil Denizli,et al.  Molecularly imprinted ligand-exchange recognition assay of glucose by quartz crystal microbalance. , 2005, Biosensors & bioelectronics.

[5]  O. Rolinski,et al.  Molecular distribution sensing in a fluorescence resonance energy transfer based affinity assay for glucose. , 2001, Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy.

[6]  Sang Beom Jun,et al.  Application of a new Cl-plasma-treated Ag/AgCl reference electrode to micromachined glucose sensor , 2003 .

[7]  J. Pickup,et al.  Blood Glucose and Glycated Haemoglobin Measurement in Hospital: Which Method? , 1993, Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association.

[8]  Matthew A Cooper,et al.  Direct quantification of analyte concentration by resonant acoustic profiling. , 2005, Clinical chemistry.

[9]  I Karube,et al.  Integration of microfabricated needle-type glucose sensor devices with a novel thin-film Ag/AgCl electrode and plasma-polymerized thin film: mass production techniques. , 2001, The Analyst.

[10]  Binghe Wang,et al.  A detailed examination of boronic acid–diol complexation , 2002 .

[11]  Kohji Mitsubayashi,et al.  Optical-transparent and flexible glucose sensor with ITO electrode. , 2003, Biosensors & bioelectronics.

[12]  Takeshi Kobayashi,et al.  Construction of a glucose sensor based on a screen-printed electrode and a novel mediator pyocyanin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa. , 2004, Biosensors & bioelectronics.

[13]  H. Heise,et al.  Noninvasive blood glucose sensors based on near-infrared spectroscopy. , 1994, Artificial organs.

[14]  Isao Karube,et al.  Micromachined liquid-junction Ag/AgCl reference electrode , 1998 .