PH-Responsive DNA Nanolinker Conjugated Hybrid Materials for Electrochemical Microactuator and Biosensor Applications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-28-2018
Abstract
Copyright © 2018 American Chemical Society. Carbon nanotube (CNT)-based composite or hybrid materials have been broadly used for various biomedical applications such as microactuators, sensors, capacitors, and flexible electronic textiles because of their appealing physical and electrical properties and energy-storage functions. However, to enable application-based specific functionalities (e.g., sensing, responding, and deformation) it is essential that smart stimulus-responsive elements be incorporated into the CNT-based materials. A pioneering approach in integrating stimulus-responsive molecules or linkers is to utilize multistranded DNA structures, such as i-motif DNA with a four-folded structure, which shows reversible conformational changes upon pH alteration. Herein, a pH-responsive CNT-based hybrid material is developed by conjugating i-motif DNA as a pH-responsive nanosized cross-linker. To fabricate microfibers, we spun the i-motif DNA nanolinker-conjugated CNT-based hybrid material in a proton-rich coagulation bath. The attained hybrid microfibers are composed of partially aligned nanowires with â50 nm diameters that are formed in the protonation process by self-assembly of the i-motif DNA nanolinker-conjugated CNT-based hybrid material. The hybrid microfibers showed high electrical conductivity (â27 S/cm), excellent capacitance in a biological medium (â59.9 F/g at pH 5 and â47.8 F/g at pH 8), and stable microactuation without creep behavior. Furthermore, the conjugated i-motif DNA in the hybrid microfibers undergoes conformational changes from a four-folded structure (pH 5) to a random coil structure (pH 8), thus enabling unique dual-pH reversibility in the microfibers, namely switchable microporosity, electrochemical redox activity, and hydrogen peroxide sensing activity. Consequently, the designed stimulus-responsive hybrid microfiber can be used for microactuation and biosensing applications. ©
Publication Title
ACS Applied Nano Materials
Recommended Citation
Jodat, Y.,
Lotfi, P.,
Abadi, P.,
Mun, J.,
Seo, J.,
Shin, E.,
Jung, S.,
Lee, C.,
&
Shin, S.
(2018).
PH-Responsive DNA Nanolinker Conjugated Hybrid Materials for Electrochemical Microactuator and Biosensor Applications.
ACS Applied Nano Materials,
1(12), 6630-6640.
http://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.8b01429
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