Specific Protein Detection Using Thermally Reduced Graphene Oxide Sheet Decorated with Gold Nanoparticle‐Antibody Conjugates

Novel nanomaterials, such as nanowires and carbon nanotubes (CNTs), have attracted considerable attention in electrical detection of chemical and biological species for clinical diagnosis and practical pharmaceutical applications during the past decade. [ 1–3 ] Electrical detection of biomolecules using nanomaterials can often achieve high sensitivity because nanomaterials are extremely sensitive to electronic perturbations in the surrounding environment. By using CNTs and CNT-based fi eldeffect transistors (FETs), biosensors have been demonstrated for the detection of protein binding [ 4–7 ] and DNA hybridization events. [ 8 , 9 ] The detection limit of reported CNT protein sensors is normally at 0.1–10 nM level, [ 2 , 5 , 10 ] and an improved detection limit could reach 1 ng/ml through cleaving the protein using an enzyme. [ 7 ] Although CNT devices are promising candidates for biosensors with high sensitivity, the variation in the device characteristics is an obstacle to the device reliability and the device sensitivity is still limited by surface area and electrical properties of CNTs. Graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms in a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice, has potential applications in the electrical detection of biological species due to their unique physical properties. [ 11–13 ] Intrinsic graphene is a zero-gap semiconductor that has remarkably high electron mobility ( ∼ 15 000 cm 2 ⋅ V − 1 ⋅ s − 1 ) at room temperature, [ 12 ] which is even higher than that of CNTs. [ 14 ] Although graphene has been explored for various applications, [ 15–26 ] there are only limited reports on graphenebased biosensors until recently. [ 27–33 ] For instance, large-sized graphene fi lm FETs were fabricated for the electrical detection of DNA hybridization; [ 27 ] graphene oxide (GO) was used in single-bacterium and label-free DNA sensors. [ 29 ] In addition, electrolyte-gated graphene FETs for electrical detection of pH and protein adsorption were reported. [ 30 ] Despite the sparse demonstration of graphene for biosensing applications, graphene-based FETs have not been reported for detection of protein binding (antibody to antigen) events. Because the carrier

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