Near-Infrared Light-Excited Core–Core–Shell UCNP@Au@CdS Upconversion Nanospheres for Ultrasensitive Photoelectrochemical Enzyme Immunoassay

Abstract

A novel photoelectrochemical (PEC) enzyme immunoassay was designed for the ultrasensitive detection of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) based on near-infrared (NIR) light-excited core-core-shell UCNP@Au@CdS upconversion nanospheres. Plasmonic gold (Au) between the sandwiched layers was not only utilized as an energy harvester for the collection of the incident light but also acted as an energy conveyor to transfer the energy from upconversion NaYF:Yb,Er (UCNP) to semiconductor CdS, thus exciting the efficient separation of electron-hole pairs by the generated HO of enzyme immunoreaction under the irradiation of a 980 nm laser. By virtue of high catalytic activity of natural enzymes, gold nanoparticles heavily functionalized with glucose oxidase (GOx) and polyclonal anti-AFP antibody were utilized to generate HO. A sandwiched immunoreaction was first carried out in a monoclonal anti-AFP antibody-coated microplate by using an antibody-labeled gold nanoparticle as secondary antibody. Accompanying the gold nanoparticle, the carried GOx oxidized glucose in HO, thereby resulting in the enhanced photocurrent via capturing holes on the valence band of CdS to promote the separation of electron-hole pairs. Under optimum conditions, the NIR light-based PEC immunosensing system exhibited good photocurrent responses toward target AFP within the dynamic working range of 0.01-40 ng mL at a detection limit of 5.3 pg mL. Moreover, the NIR light-based sensing platform had good reproducibility and high selectivity. Importantly, good well-matched results obtained from NIR light-based PEC immunoassay were acquired for the analysis of human serum specimens by using AFP ELISA kit as the reference.

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