Analytical Chemistry, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown
Published: Feb. 21, 2025
All of the commercialized electrochemiluminescence (ECL) immunoassays are automatically conducted at +1.40 V (vs Ag/AgCl) in coreactant route. To alleviate exogenous effect coreactants and simplify operation procedures, herein, a sulfur-vacancy-involved free electron strategy is proposed to exploit Au nanoclusters (NCs) as anodic electrochemiluminophores perform coreactant-free immunoassay. The deficient coordination between sulfhydryl Met core might induce departure partial S atoms enable Met-capped AuNCs (Met-AuNCs) with electron-rich nature. nature tends endow Met-AuNCs unpaired endogenous electrons, which can directly combine holes for light emitting. Coreactant-free ECL around +0.86 consequently conveniently achieved by merely oxidizing anode. qualified determine human carcinoembryonic antigen from 10 5000 pg/mL limit detection 5 pg/mL. Electron paramagnetic resonance provides clear evidence that electrons within play an important role generation ECL. This promising designing nanoelectrochemiluminophores improved immunoassay performance.
Language: Английский