Issue 47, 2018

3D graphene/hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin nanocomposite as an electrochemical chiral sensor for the recognition of tryptophan enantiomers

Abstract

A novel and facile chiral sensing platform has been designed for electrochemical enantiomer recognition based on the coupling of three-dimensional-graphene with hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (3D-G/HP-β-CD). The chiral platform synergistically exploits HP-β-CD as a supramolecular chiral recognizer and 3D-G as an electrochemical indicator, to recognize tryptophan (Trp) enantiomers by differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) approach with significantly discernable electrochemical signals. The different host–guest interactions of D- and L-Trp with HP-β-CD reveal high binding affinity to target L-tryptophan for sensing tryptophan isomers. Moreover, we found that the peak currents of the two enantiomers showed a linear response in the concentration range of 0.5–175 μM with low detection limits of 9.6 nM and 38 nM for L- and D-Trp (S/N = 3), respectively, exhibiting remarkable sensitivity, fine reproducibility as well as great stability. This process, which is the initial demonstration of cyclodextrin-functionalized 3D-G for an electrochemical chiral recognition application, provides a new strategy for enantiosensing.

Graphical abstract: 3D graphene/hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin nanocomposite as an electrochemical chiral sensor for the recognition of tryptophan enantiomers

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
04 Sep 2018
Accepted
18 Oct 2018
First published
19 Oct 2018

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018,6, 12822-12829

3D graphene/hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin nanocomposite as an electrochemical chiral sensor for the recognition of tryptophan enantiomers

W. Liang, Y. Rong, L. Fan, W. Dong, Q. Dong, C. Yang, Z. Zhong, C. Dong, S. Shuang and W. Wong, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018, 6, 12822 DOI: 10.1039/C8TC04448A

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