Enzyme electrode sensor and manufacturing method thereof

• US 6,413,396 B1
• Filed: 02/04/2000
• Issued: 07/02/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: Kim, Youn Tae, Yang, Haesik
• Primary Examiner(s): Tung, T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOGUEROLA, ALEXANDER STEPHAN
• Application Number:
  US09/497,883
• Time in Patent Office: 879 Days
• Field of Search: 204/403, 204/418
• US Class Current: 204/403.14
• CPC Class Codes: C12Q 1/002 Electrode membranes

Abstract

An enzyme electrode sensor and a fabricating method thereof, and more particularly, an enzyme electrode sensor which is a biosensor using electrochemical measurement and a manufacturing method thereof. The sensor includes an electrode, a first nonconducting polymer layer formed by electropolymerization outside the electrode wherein enzyme is immobilized in the nonconducting polymer layer, a second nonconducting polymer layer in which enzyme is not immobilized, the second nonconducting layer formed by electropolymerization outside the first nonconducting polymer layer, and an outer layer formed outside the second nonconducting layer. The sensor selectivity is improved as the interference of organic materials is inhibited, and the interference of acetaminophen causing the major problem with a glucose sensor is controlled effectively by the sensor.

Claims

1. An enzyme electrode sensor, comprising:

an electrode;

a first electropolymerized nonconducting polymer layer formed outside the electrode;

a second electropolymerized nonconducting polymer layer formed outside the first electropolymerized nonconducting polymer layer;

an outer layer formed outside the second electropolymerized nonconducting polymer layer; and

enzyme fixed to the first electropolymerized nonconducting polymer layer, and no enzyme fixed to the second electropolymerized nonconducting polymer layer.

2. The enzyme electrode sensor of claim 1 wherein the electrode is one of either a Pt electrode and an Rh electrode.

3. The enzyme electrode sensor of claim 1 wherein the enzyme is one of either glucose oxidase, lactate oxidase, alcohol oxidase, and cholesterol oxidase.

4. The enzyme electrode sensor of claim 1 wherein the first and second electropolymerized nonconducting polymer layers comprise one of either poly(phenylenediamine), poly(aminohydroxybenzene), poly(dilhydroxybenzene) poly(diamnononaphthalene), poly(aminohydroxynaphthalene), and poly(dihycroxynaphthalene).

5. The enzyme electrode sensor of claim 1 wherein the outer layer comprises one of either polyurethane, cellulose acetate, Nafion, Teflon, and Kel-F.

6. An enzyme electrode sensor, comprising:

an electrode;

a first nonconducting polymer layer formed by electrochemical polymerization outside the electrode wherein an enzyme is fixed to the nonconducting polymer layer;

a second nonconducting polymer layer to which the enzyme is not fixed, the second nonconducting layer formed by electrochemical polymerization outside the first nonconducting polymer layer; and

an outer layer formed outside the second nonconducting layer, the nonconducting polymer layers comprising one of either poly(phenylenediamine), poly(aminohydroxybenzene), poly(dihydroxybenzene), poly(diamononaphthalene), and poly(aminohydroxynaphthalene), and poly(dihydroxynaphthalene).