A Novel Three-Electrode System Fabricated on Polymethyl Methacrylate for On-Chip Electrochemical Detection
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Author list: Wongkaew N., Kirschbaum S.E.K., Surareungchai W., Durst R.A., Baeumner A.J.
Publisher: Wiley
Publication year: 2012
Journal: Electroanalysis (1040-0397)
Volume number: 24
Issue number: 10
Start page: 1903
End page: 1908
Number of pages: 6
ISSN: 1040-0397
eISSN: 1521-4109
Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)
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Abstract
A new strategy of three-electrode system fabrication in polymer-based microfluidic systems is described here. Standard lithography, hot embossing and UV-assisted thermal bonding were employed for fabrication and assembly of the microfluidic chip. For the electrode design the gold working (WE) and counter electrodes (CE) are placed inside a main channel through which the sample solution passes. A silver reference electrode (RE) is embedded in a small side channel containing KCl solution that is continuously pushed into the main channel. In the present work, the overall electrochemical set up and its microfabrication is described. Conditions including silver ion concentration, cyclic voltammetry (CV) settings, and the flow rate of KCl solution in the RE channel were optimized. The electrochemical performance of the three-electrode system was evaluated by CV and also by amperometric oxidation of ferro hexacyanide ([Fe(CN) 6] 4-) and ruthenium bipyridyl ([Ru(bipy) 3] 2+) at 400mV and 1200mV, respectively. CV analysis using ferri/ferro hexacyanide showed a stable, quasi-reversible redox reaction at the electrodes with 96mV peak separation and an anodic/cathodic peak ratio of 1. Amperometric analysis of the electrochemical species resulted in linear correlation between analyte concentration and current response in the range of 0.5-15μM for [Fe(CN) 6] 4-, and 0-1000μM for [Ru(bipy) 3] 2+. Upon the given experimental conditions, the limit of detection was found to be 3.15μM and 24.83μM for [Fe(CN) 6] 4- and [Ru(bipy) 3] 2+, respectively. As a fully integrated three-electrode system that is fabricated on polymer substrates, it has great applications in microfluidic-based systems requiring stable electrochemical detection. © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
Keywords
MicroTAS, PMMA microfluidic chip, Reference electrode, Three-electrode system
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