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Glucose Monitoring Using a Polymer Brush Modified Polypropylene Hollow Fiber-based Hydraulic Flow Sensor

Fortin, Nicolas  
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Klok, Harm-Anton  
2015
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Tight regulation of blood glucose levels of diabetic patients requires durable and robust continuous glucose sensing schemes. This manuscript reports the fabrication of ultrathin, phenylboronic acid (PBA) functionalized polymer brushes that swell upon glucose binding and which were integrated as the sensing interface in a new polypropylene hollow fiber (PPHF)-based hydraulic flow glucose sensor prototype. The polymer brushes were prepared via surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization of sodium methacrylate followed by postpolymerization modification with 3-aminophenyl boronic acid. In a first series of experiments, the glucose-response of PBA-functionalized poly(methacrylic acid) (PMAA) brushes grafted from planar silicon surfaces was investigated by quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM-D) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) experiments. The QCM-D experiments revealed a more or less linear change of the frequency shift for glucose concentrations up to similar to 10 mM and demonstrated that glucose binding was completely reversible for up to seven switching cycles. The AFM experiments indicated that glucose binding was accompanied by an increase in the film thickness of the PBA functionalized PMAA brushes. The PBA functionalized PMAA brushes were subsequently grafted from the surface of PPHF membranes. The hydraulic permeability of these porous fibers depends on the thickness and swelling of the PMAA brush coating. PBA functionalized brush-coated PPHFs showed a decrease in flux upon exposure to glucose, which is consistent with swelling of the brush coating. Because they avoid the use of enzymes and do not rely on an electrochemical transduction scheme, these PPHF-based hydraulic flow sensors could represent an interesting alternative class of continuous glucose sensors.

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DOI
10.1021/am507927w
Web of Science ID

WOS:000353005300023

Author(s)
Fortin, Nicolas  
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Klok, Harm-Anton  
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

Amer Chemical Soc

Published in
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Volume

7

Issue

8

Start page

4631

End page

4640

Subjects

polymer brushes

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surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization

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glucose sensor

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phenylboronic acid

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hydraulic permeability

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REVIEWED

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