Nature Communications (May 2020)

Insights into the mechanism of coreactant electrochemiluminescence facilitating enhanced bioanalytical performance

  • Alessandra Zanut,
  • Andrea Fiorani,
  • Sofia Canola,
  • Toshiro Saito,
  • Nicole Ziebart,
  • Stefania Rapino,
  • Sara Rebeccani,
  • Antonio Barbon,
  • Takashi Irie,
  • Hans-Peter Josel,
  • Fabrizia Negri,
  • Massimo Marcaccio,
  • Michaela Windfuhr,
  • Kyoko Imai,
  • Giovanni Valenti,
  • Francesco Paolucci

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16476-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) is a leading technique in biosensing. Here the authors identify an ECL generation mechanism near the electrode surface, which they exploit in combination with the use of branched amine coreactants to improve the ECL signal beyond the state-of-the-art immunoassays.