Detección de compuestos xenobióticos mediante transistores de efecto campo basados en nanotubos de carbono

Identifier:  TDX:814

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX814

Authors:  Sánchez Acevedo, Zayda Constanza

Abstract:
Sensors and devices based on nanomaterials have advantages arising from their nanometric size and the properties that identify them, resulting in many cases in lower limits of detection, shorter times of analysis and the need for no pretreatment of samples. This thesis shows the development of a field effect transistor based on carbon nanotubes (CNTFET) for the detection of bisphenol A (BFA) (a xenobiotic compound) in water. For the first time we used a nuclear receptor, the estrogen receptor alpha (ER-α) for the functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) due to the high affinity of ER-α and xenobiotic compounds. We obtained a biosensor that transforms the selective interaction biomolecule-analyte in a measurable electrical signal, allowing detection of BFA below the reference dose and with lower detection limits than other detection methods in the literature, with very low time of analysis (0.5 - 2 minutes).