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Molecular dynamics simulation of potentiometric sensor response: Effect of biomolecules, surface morphology and surface charge

Molecular dynamics simulation of potentiometric sensor response: Effect of biomolecules, surface morphology and surface charge
Molecular dynamics simulation of potentiometric sensor response: Effect of biomolecules, surface morphology and surface charge
The silica-water interface is critical to many modern technologies in chemical engineering and biosensing. One technology used commonly in biosensors, the potentiometric sensor, operates by measuring changes in electric potential due to changes in the interfacial electric field. Predictive modelling of this response caused by surface binding of biomolecules remains highly challenging. In this work, through the most extensive molecular dynamics simulation of the silica-water interfacial potential and electric field to-date, we report novel prediction and explanation of the effects of nano-morphology on sensor response. Amorphous silica demonstrated a larger potentiometric response than an equivalent crystalline silica model due to increased sodium adsorption, in agreement with experiments showing improved sensor response with nano-texturing. We provide proof-of-concept that molecular dynamics can be used as a complementary tool for potentiometric biosensor response prediction. Effects that are conventionally neglected, such as surface morphology, water polarisation, biomolecule dynamics and finite-size effects are explicitly modelled.
2040-3364
8650-8666
Lowe, Benjamin Mark
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Skylaris, Chris-Kriton
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Green, Nicolas G.
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Shibuta, Yasushi
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Green, Nicolas G.
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Shibuta, Yasushi
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Sakata, Toshiya
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Lowe, Benjamin Mark, Skylaris, Chris-Kriton, Green, Nicolas G., Shibuta, Yasushi and Sakata, Toshiya (2018) Molecular dynamics simulation of potentiometric sensor response: Effect of biomolecules, surface morphology and surface charge. Nanoscale, 10 (18), 8650-8666. (doi:10.1039/C8NR00776D).

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The silica-water interface is critical to many modern technologies in chemical engineering and biosensing. One technology used commonly in biosensors, the potentiometric sensor, operates by measuring changes in electric potential due to changes in the interfacial electric field. Predictive modelling of this response caused by surface binding of biomolecules remains highly challenging. In this work, through the most extensive molecular dynamics simulation of the silica-water interfacial potential and electric field to-date, we report novel prediction and explanation of the effects of nano-morphology on sensor response. Amorphous silica demonstrated a larger potentiometric response than an equivalent crystalline silica model due to increased sodium adsorption, in agreement with experiments showing improved sensor response with nano-texturing. We provide proof-of-concept that molecular dynamics can be used as a complementary tool for potentiometric biosensor response prediction. Effects that are conventionally neglected, such as surface morphology, water polarisation, biomolecule dynamics and finite-size effects are explicitly modelled.

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Accepted/In Press date: 28 March 2018
e-pub ahead of print date: 16 April 2018
Published date: 14 May 2018

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Local EPrints ID: 420159
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/420159
ISSN: 2040-3364
PURE UUID: d3283eb3-12fd-4b78-a272-f529fc006cbc
ORCID for Chris-Kriton Skylaris: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0258-3433
ORCID for Nicolas G. Green: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9230-4455

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Date deposited: 27 Apr 2018 16:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 03:51

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Author: Benjamin Mark Lowe
Author: Nicolas G. Green ORCID iD
Author: Yasushi Shibuta
Author: Toshiya Sakata

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