Abstract: Many metal oxide nanozymes have been demonstrated to exhibit a peroxidase-like activity much higher than an oxidase-like one in triggering the oxidation of colorless TMB to blue oxTMB. Unlike the conventional phenomenon, here, we observe that amorphous CoOx can show strong oxidase-like activity, but its activity decreases after the addition of H2O2. Further experimental investigation revealed the underlying mechanism: H2O2 decomposes CoOx into inactive cobalt ions. Through redox potential calculations, the feasibility of their reaction was theoretically confirmed. Moreover, the unusual phenomenon mainly occurs in amorphous CoOx and does not exist in cobalt oxides with distinct crystallinity. Based on the finding, a biocatalytic enzyme–nanozyme cascade system can be constructed using CoOx and glucose oxidase (GOx) for detecting glucose in human serum. In the presence of oxygen, glucose is catalyzed by GOx to generate H2O2, which decomposes the CoOx nanozyme, reducing its oxidase-like activity and thereby inhibiting the TMB coloration system. Therefore, with the increase in glucose concentration, the absorbance of the color-developing system also gradually decreases, thus achieving the quantitative detection of glucose. The developed method has high sensitivity and also shows good anti-interference ability in real samples, providing a new strategy for blood glucose detection based on nanozymes.
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Hydrogen peroxide inhibits the oxidase-like activity of amorphous CoOx for the sensitive colorimetric detection of glucose
Published:
02 May 2025
by MDPI
in The 5th International Electronic Conference on Biosensors
session Optical and Photonic Biosensors
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Keywords: Nanozyme; H2O2; glucose; cascade catalysis; colorimetric detection
