Enhancing ECL efficiency of tris (bipyridine) ruthenium via amino-group-tuned Pd-MOFs for competitive detection of glypican-3.

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Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Advanced Catalysis Materials, College of Chemistry and Materials Sciences, College of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, 321004, China. Electronic address:

Published: October 2025


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Nowadays, efficient electrochemiluminescence (ECL) emitters are urgently demanded to enhance the biosensor's sensitivity. In this work, we selected Pd-based metal organic frameworks (Pd-MOFs) as nanocarrier to assemble with tris (bipyridine) ruthenium (RuP) for ECL emission, and utilized it as bio-label in ECL biosensors. Three ligands with varying amino groups were employed to regulate RuP's ECL responses, including 2-nitro-1,4-phenylenediamine (NPD), 1,2,4,5-benzenetetramine tetrahydrochloride (BTA) and hexaaminobenzene (HAB). These flexible coordination ligands allowed us to study the orbital energy levels and electroactivity of the Pd-MOFs, revealing a clear relationship between the ECL efficiency and MOFs. The efficient ECL signal transduction was achieved using the competitive recognition of RuP-Pd-HAB-linked glypican-3 (GPC) with free GPC on its aptamer assembled streptavidin magnetic beads. Our ECL biosensor showed a wide detection range, a low detection limit of 20.0 fg mL, and high clinical diagnostic accuracy in real human serum. This work expands variable regulation strategies in MOFs-based ECL emitter design and highlights novel biomarker detection potential in biochemical fields.

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