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Glucose Researchers have created a precise biosensor for detecting blood glucose and potentially many other biological molecules by using hollow structures called single-wall carbon nanotubes anchored to gold-coated "nanocubes." The device resembles a tiny cube-shaped tetherball. Another application might be to study stresses in plants for agricultural research.
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The enzyme causes an electrochemical reaction in the presence of glucose and oxygen, generating an electrical signal. The same system could be used in biosensors to
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detect other types of molecules for medicine and scientific research. The technology, which detects glucose more precisely than any biosensors in development, also might be used in medicine to detect other types of biological molecules and in future biosensors for scientific research, said Clare Porterfield, an associate professor of agricultural
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" Findings are detailed in a paper appearing in the January issue of the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano. "It's like Tinker Toys at the biomolecular level." The researchers have filed a patent application for the system..

"That's because the sensing portion of the system extends out pretty

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far from the rest of the device so that it can more easily come into contact with target molecules," he said. An enzyme associated with ethanol could be used in a blood-alcohol sensor. "If we can allow someone to monitor their disease and have a
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great," Porterfield said. "Depending on where in the body you might want to sense glucose, you would need to detect different concentrations - for example, in the arteries or small intestines or muscles there are significantly different glucose concentrations," Porterfield said. The research was conducted at the Birck Nanotechnology Center and the Bindley Bioscience Center in Purdue's Discovery Park. The researchers used fluorescent-dyed streptavidin molecules to prove that the molecule attached specifically
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to the nanocube tetherballs and not broadly to all materials.

The researchers then attached a protein called streptavidin onto the gold-coated palladium nanocubes and attached another protein called biotin to the streptavidin. The biotin-streptavidin combination is commonly used in laboratory techniques to analyze

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biological samples. The nanotubes have a diameter of about two nanometers, or billionths of a meter, roughly
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25,000 times thinner than a human hair. This palladium nanocube is then coated with gold, which is compatible with biological molecules.

Each tetherball is a sensor and is anchored to electronic circuitry by a nanotube, which acts as both a tether and ultrathin wire to conduct electrical signals, said Corny Fisher, a Purdue University professor of mechanical engineering. "This is the first time researchers have assembled from the atomic to the biomolecular level all the components

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you need for a biosensor," Porterfield said. "But
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what if we could develop a tool that would allow scientists to discover the cure for that disease?" Attaching enzymes associated with neuronal signaling could be used to study the brain and nervous system. The engineers have developed a technique to grow individual carbon nanotubes vertically on top of a silicon wafer, a step toward making advanced electronics, wireless devices and sensors using nanotubes. After verifying the tetherball portion of the device could be used as
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a sensor, the researchers turned the device into a glucose sensor by replacing the biotin with an enzyme called glucose oxidase. The paper, which will be
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featured on the journal's cover, was written by Erick Claussen, a doctoral student in agricultural and biological engineering; Mozes Franklin, a doctoral student in electrical and computer engineering; Aeraj ul Haque, a doctoral student in agricultural and biological engineering; Porterfield; and Fisher. "Because of the advanced characteristics,
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this system could be adapted as an all-purpose sensor platform." The single-wall nanotubes are especially suited for electronic sensors because electricity flows more efficiently through wires only a few nanometers in diameter than it does through ordinary wires.

"The new biosensor is more sensitive than others

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for those target molecules to diffuse down all the way to the surface and can move into other regions within the range of the tether for enhanced sensing. "Biotin and streptavidin are like tiny Lego blocks that are designed to hook together," Porterfield said. The device is an example of a nano electromechanical
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Being able to sense small quantities while at the same time detecting a wide range of concentrations are two traits that are normally mutually exclusive. "Other sensors only detect over narrow ranges of specific concentrations," Porterfield said. Other sensors require at least five times more glucose to generate a signal, and the new sensor also can operate over a wider range of glucose concentration, which means it could be used for many purposes. The nanotubes grow out of tiny holes in a "porous anodic alumina template." (This method is described in a previous news release at /UNS/html4ever/2006/060801.Fisher.vertical.html) The nanotubes extend out of the pores, and then palladium metal is deposited inside the pores, eventually forming cube-shaped caps at the top of each pore.