Sensors (Jan 2020)

Developing a Silk Fibroin Composite Film to Scavenge and Probe H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> Associated with UV-Excitable Blue Fluorescence

  • Tze-Wen Chung,
  • Chun-Yi Chang,
  • Chun-Ning Chang,
  • Chiu-Hsun Liao,
  • Yun-Jen Jan,
  • Li-Ting Chen,
  • Weng-Pin Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/s20020366
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 2
p. 366

Abstract

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A silk fibroin composite film that can simultaneously scavenge and probe H2O2 in situ was developed for possibly examining local concentrations of H2O2 for biomedical applications. A multi-functional composite film (GDES) that consists of graphene oxide (G), a photothermally responsive element that was blended with polydopamine (PDA, D)/horseradish peroxidase (HRP, E) (or DE complex), and then GDE microaggregates were coated with silk fibroin (SF, S), a tyrosine-containing protein. At 37 °C, the H2O2-scavenging ability of a GDES film in solution at approximately 7.5 × 10−3 μmol H2O2/mg film was the highest compared with those of S and GS films. The intensities of UV-excitable blue fluorescence of a GDES film linearly increased with increasing H2O2 concentrations from 4.0 μM to 80 μM at 37 °C. Interestingly, after a GDES film scavenged H2O2, the UV-excitable blue fluorescent film could be qualitatively monitored by eye, making the film an eye-probe H2O2 sensor. A GDES film enabled to heat H2O2-containing samples to 37 °C or higher by the absorption of near-IR irradiation at 808 nm. The good biocompatibility of a GDES film was examined according to the requirements of ISO-10993-5. Accordingly, a GDES film was developed herein to scavenge and eye-probe H2O2 in situ and so it has potential for biomedical applications.

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