Calibration-Free and Highly Sensitive Potentiometric Enzyme-Based Biosensors.

Enzyme-based amperometric biosensors have become popular for healthcare applications. However, they have been under constant pressure for technological innovation to improve their sensitivity and usability. An ideal biosensor has high sensitivity and calibration-free characteristics.

Control of absorption properties of tetraazaporphyrin group 15 complexes by modification of their axial ligands.

Tetraazaporphyrin (TAP) complexes with group 15 elements (phosphorus(v) or arsenic(v)) containing two axial OH ligands showed reversible spectroscopic changes with acid or base doping. Spectroscopic and theoretical analysis revealed that the modification of axial ligands can tune the interaction between peripheral substituents and the TAP macrocycle.