Recessed ring-disk nanoelectrode arrays integrated in nanofluidic structures for selective electrochemical detection.

Arrays of recessed ring-disk (RRD) electrodes with nanoscale spacing fabricated by multilayer deposition, nanosphere lithography, and multistep reactive ion etching were incorporated into nanofluidic channels. These arrays, which characteristically exhibit redox cycling leading to current amplification during cyclic voltammetry, can selectively analyze electroactive species based on differences in redox reversibility, redox potential, or both. Using Ru(NH3)6(3+) and ascorbic acid (AA) as model reversible and irreversible redox species, the selectivity for electrochemical measurement of Ru(NH3)6(3+) against a background of AA improves from ∼10, for an array operated in a fluidically unconstrained geometry, to ∼70 for an array integrated within nanofluidic channels. RRD arrays were also used for the detection of dopamine in the presence of AA by cyclic voltammetry. A linear response ranging from 100 nM to 1 mM with a detection limit of 20 nM was obtained for dopamine alone without nanofluidic confinement. In nanochannel-confined arrays, AA was depleted by holding the ring electrodes at +0.5 V versus Ag/AgCl, allowing interference-free determination of dopamine at the disk electrodes in the presence of a 100-fold excess of AA. For selective detection of electrochemically reversible interfering species on an RRD array without nanochannel confinement, a ring potential can be chosen such that one species exhibits exclusively cathodic (anodic) current, allowing the other species to be determined from its anodic (cathodic) current. This approach for selective detection is demonstrated in a mixture of Ru(NH3)6(3+) and Fe(CN)6(3-), which have resolved redox potentials. The same principle was successfully applied to differentiate species with overlapping redox potentials, such as dopamine/Fe(CN)6(3-) and ferrocenemethanol/Fe(CN)6(4-).

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