Adsorption Behaviour of PEGylated Gold Nanoparticles to Different Surfaces Probed by CV Monitoring

Abstract:

Non-adsorption of water dispersible gold nanoparticles (GNPs) is a major concern in its widely labeling applications. This paper presents the investigation of the adsorption properties of GNPs with superficially tethered ferrocene functions to different surfaces. The GNPs were coated with a mixed monolayer of PEG-thiol and progargyl PEG-thiol, and the later was linked with a ferrocene moiety (Fc) through the alkyne-azide click reaction. The adsorption behaviors of the Fc-GNP to glassy carbon, gold and platinum electrodes, in the absence and presence of a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) or protein layer, were studied by cyclic voltammetry (CV). It was found that the bare gold electrode possessed higher adsorption capacity. However, the adsorption was either reduced or completely prevented when the gold electrode was modified with monolayers of 2-mercaptoethanol (ME), dodecanethiolate (DT) and PEG-thiol. The electroactive and water dispersible GNPs with Fc labels allows us to use CV to explore the interaction between these GNP and bovine serum albumin (BSA). The BSA modified electrode resulted in better resistant to adsorption compared to other modifiers coated electrodes. Thus, the study of non-specific interaction by CV was found effective when compared to results obtained by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and FTIR.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 455-456)
• Pages: 689-695
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.455-456.689
• Online since: January 2012
• Authors: Damra E. Mustafa, Hua Fan, Xuan Zhou, Hai Yang Tu, Ai Dong Zhang
• Keywords: Cyclic Voltammetry (CV), Ferrocene, Gold Nanoparticles (GNP), Non-Specific Adsorption, Polyethylene Glycol (PEG)

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