Keywords
Glucose sensor, gold nanospheres, gold nanorods, silver nanorods, silver nanosphres, silver nanoprisms
Abstract
Diabetes is a disease that causes many complications in human normal function. This disease represents the sixth-leading cause of death in USA. Prevention of diabetes-related complications can be accomplished through tight control of glucose levels in blood. In the last decades many different glucose sensors have been developed, however, none of them are really non invasive. Herein, we present the study of the application of gold and silver nanoparticles with different shapes and aspect ratios to detect glucose traces in human fluids such as tears and sweat. This is to our knowledge the first truly non invasive glucose optical sensor, with extraordinary limit of detection and selectivity. The best proven nanoparticles for this application were gold nanospheres. Gold nanospheres were synthesized using chloroauric acid tri-hydrated (HAuCl4.3H2O) in solution, in the presence of glucose and ammonia hydroxide. The higher the glucose concentration, the higher the number of nanoparticles generated, thus the higher the extinction efficiency of the solution. The linear dependence of the extinction efficiency of the gold nanoparticles solution with glucose concentration makes of this new sensor suitable for direct applications in biomedical sensing. Our approach is based on the well known Tollens test.
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Graduation Date
2006
Semester
Spring
Advisor
Hernandez, Florencio
Degree
Master of Science (M.S.)
College
College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Chemistry
Degree Program
Industrial Chemistry
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0000953
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0000953
Language
English
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
STARS Citation
Garcia, Marisol, "Truly Non Invasive Glucose Optical Sensor Based On Metal Nanoparticles Generation" (2006). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 4466.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/4466