A new and effective strategy was proposed for preparing new organic-inorganic composite biosorbent with spherical silica as supporting core and chitosan(CS)-based hybrid layer as shell based on sol-gel reaction and simple treatment with sodium hydroxide(NaOH). The coating layer was covalently bound on the supporting silica through polysaccharide incorporated sol-gel process starting from CS and inorganic precursor γ-glycidoxypropyl-trimethoxysiloxane(GPTMS). GPTMS had epoxide groups and cross-linked amine groups of CS to avoid its acidic solubilization. The composite biosorbent had coarse surface due to the wet phase-inversion by treating in NaOH solution. The prepared biosorbent could be used in treating electric plating wastewater.
Direct electrochemistry and electrocatalysis of horseradish peroxidase(HRP) were achieved by entrapping the enzyme between CaCO3 microspheres and gold nanoparticles through forming sandwich configuration (CaCO3-HRP-AuNPs). Polyanion, poly(styrene sulfonate)(PSS), was hybrid with CaCO3 microspheres to increase the surface negative charges for binding with HRP through electrostatic interaction. After the bioconjugate CaCO3 PSS-HRP was entrapped in chitosan based sol-gel(CS-GPTMS) film, HRP was encapsulated by in situ formation of an outer layer of AuNPs through electrochemical reduction of HAuCl4. The composite film containing AuNPs, CaCO3-PSS-HRP bioconjugates and CS-GPTMS can provide favorable microenvironment for HRP to perform direct electron transfer at glassy carbon electrode(GCE). HRP retained its bioelectrocatalytic activity and lead to sensitive and fast amperometric response for the determination of H2O2. H2O2 could be detected in a very wide linear range from 5.0×10-6 mol/L to 7.1×10-2 mol/L. The sandwich configuration of CaCO3-biomolecules-AuNPs could serve as a versatile platform for enzyme immobilization and biosensing.
