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Enzyme nanoparticles-based electronic biosensor.

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A simple and effective method to prepare an enzyme electronic biosensor by immobilizing enzyme nanoparticles directly onto the gold electrode surface is described; prepared horseradish peroxidase nanoparticles have been successfully used to develop reagentless electronic biosensors for H2O2 detection without promoters and mediators and offer great potential to develop enzyme-based electronic biosensors.

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Guodong Liu, Yuehe Lin, Veronika Ostatná, Joseph Wang. 2005-06-09. Enzyme nanoparticles-based electronic biosensor.. https://doi.org/10.1039/b504943a

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