Shedding Light on the Diversity of Surfactant Interactions with Luminol Electrochemiluminescence for Bioanalysis

Mayer, Michael and Hahn, Maximilian and Gerstl, Florian and Koewer, Thomas and Rink, Simone and Kunz, Werner and Duerkop, Axel and Baeumner, Antje J. (2019) Shedding Light on the Diversity of Surfactant Interactions with Luminol Electrochemiluminescence for Bioanalysis. ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, 91 (20). pp. 13080-13087. ISSN 0003-2700, 1520-6882

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Abstract

Luminol is a major probe for chemiluminescence (CL) and electrochemiluminescence (ECL) detection technologies in (bio)analysis. Surfactants are added to ECL assay cocktails to enhance signals or are present, owing to given bioassay protocols, yet little is known regarding their effects on luminol ECL. In-depth understanding is provided here through a broad study with bioanalytically relevant surfactants (cationic, anionic, and nonionic), four common electrode materials, and two luminol derivatives. Naturally, in ECL, surface effects are dominant; however, bulk solution, diffusion, and luminescence-stabilization processes also contribute significantly to the overall reaction. It was found that in contrast to CL the effect surfactants have on luminol ECL cannot be linked to general surfactant characteristics such as ionic nature, hydrophilic lipophilic balance (HLB) value, and critical micellar concentration (CMC). Instead, surfactants act in an all-encompassing mechanism, including surface electrochemistry, their solution and interfacial phases, and the chemical luminescence pathway. This leads to dramatic differences in signals obtained, ranging from 5-fold increases to total quenching. Within this complexity, we defined six guiding principles that are extrapolated from the underlying mechanisms and selection guides for surfactant, electrode, and environmental condition combinations. Those will now assist in developing highly sensitive luminol-ECL-based bioassays, because the surfactant selection can be based not only on properties needed for the assay protocol but also on identifying the optimal electrode-surfactant pair to maximize detection efficiency.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: HYDROPHILE-LIPOPHILE BALANCE; ELECTROGENERATED CHEMILUMINESCENCE; NONIONIC SURFACTANTS; FLUOROSURFACTANT; RUTHENIUM(II); MICELLIZATION; SYSTEM;
Subjects: 500 Science > 540 Chemistry & allied sciences
Divisions: Chemistry and Pharmacy > Institut für Analytische Chemie, Chemo- und Biosensorik
Chemistry and Pharmacy > Institut für Analytische Chemie, Chemo- und Biosensorik > Chemo- und Biosensorik (Prof. Antje J. Bäumner, formerly Prof. Wolfbeis)
Chemistry and Pharmacy > Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie
Chemistry and Pharmacy > Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie > Chair of Chemistry VI - Physical Chemistry (Solution Chemistry) > Prof. Dr. Werner Kunz
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 25 Mar 2020 09:45
Last Modified: 25 Mar 2020 09:45
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/26000

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