Quantitation of glucose using Cu₂O/Ag nanoparticles probe with a smartphone-controlled portable device

A single-step method combining material preparation and the actual glucose measurements via the in situ growth of Cu2O/Ag nanoparticles was reported. Mechanistically, I use glucose itself to reduce Cu2+ and Ag+ ions that are stabilized with 3-mercaptopropionic acid and bovine serum albumin under alkaline conditions to form Cu2O/Ag nanoparticles and produce a color change in solution due to plasmonic resonance at 400 nm, which can be related back to the concentration of glucose. This was also the research of my master thesis.

Yu-Wen Chen
PhD student