TY - JOUR A1 - Comminges, Clement A1 - Frasca, Stefano A1 - Suetterlin, Martin A1 - Wischerhoff, Erik A1 - Laschewsky, André A1 - Wollenberger, Ursula T1 - Surface modification with thermoresponsive polymer brushes for a switchable electrochemical sensor JF - RSC Advances N2 - Elaboration of switchable surfaces represents an interesting way for the development of a new generation of electrochemical sensors. In this paper, a method for growing thermoresponsive polymer brushes from a gold surface pre-modified with polyethyleneimine (PEI), subsequent layer-by-layer polyelectrolyte assembly and adsorption of a charged macroinitiator is described. We propose an easy method for monitoring the coil-to-globule phase transition of the polymer brush using an electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (E-QCM-D). The surface of these polymer modified electrodes shows reversible switching from the swollen to the collapsed state with temperature. As demonstrated from E-QCM-D measurements using an original signal processing method, the switch is operating in three reversible steps related to different interfacial viscosities. Moreover, it is shown that the one electron oxidation of ferrocene carboxylic acid is dramatically affected by the change from the swollen to the collapsed state of the polymer brush, showing a spectacular 86% decrease of the charge transfer resistance between the two states. Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ra07190e SN - 2046-2069 VL - 4 IS - 81 SP - 43092 EP - 43097 PB - Royal Society of Chemistry CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vergani, Marco A1 - Carminati, Marco A1 - Ferrari, Giorgio A1 - Landini, Ettore A1 - Caviglia, Claudia A1 - Heiskanen, Arto A1 - Comminges, Clement A1 - Zor, Kinga A1 - Sabourin, David A1 - Dufva, Martin A1 - Dimaki, Maria A1 - Raiteri, Roberto A1 - Wollenberger, Ursula A1 - Emneus, Jenny A1 - Sampietro, Marco T1 - Multichannel bipotentiostat integrated with a microfluidic platform for electrochemical real-time monitoring of cell cultures JF - IEEE Transactions on biomedical circuits and systems N2 - An electrochemical detection system specifically designed for multi-parameter real-time monitoring of stem cell culturing/differentiation in a microfluidic system is presented. It is composed of a very compact 24-channel electronic board, compatible with arrays of microelectrodes and coupled to a microfluidic cell culture system. A versatile data acquisition software enables performing amperometry, cyclic voltammetry and impedance spectroscopy in each of the 12 independent chambers over a 100 kHz bandwidth with current resolution down to 5 pA for 100 ms measuring time. The design of the platform, its realization and experimental characterization are reported, with emphasis on the analysis of impact of input capacitance (i.e., microelectrode size) and microfluidic pump operation on current noise. Programmable sequences of successive injections of analytes (ferricyanide and dopamine) and rinsing buffer solution as well as the impedimetric continuous tracking for seven days of the proliferation of a colony of PC12 cells are successfully demonstrated. KW - Electrochemical measurements KW - impedance spectroscopy KW - microfluidics KW - multichannel potentiostat KW - stem cell monitoring Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/TBCAS.2012.2187783 SN - 1932-4545 VL - 6 IS - 5 SP - 498 EP - 507 PB - Inst. of Electr. and Electronics Engineers CY - Piscataway ER - TY - GEN A1 - Comminges, Clément A1 - Frasca, Stefano A1 - Sütterlin, Martin A1 - Wischerhoff, Erik A1 - Laschewsky, André A1 - Wollenberger, Ursula T1 - Surface modification with thermoresponsive polymer brushes for a switchable electrochemical sensor N2 - Elaboration of switchable surfaces represents an interesting way for the development of a new generation of electrochemical sensors. In this paper, a method for growing thermoresponsive polymer brushes from a gold surface pre-modified with polyethyleneimine (PEI), subsequent layer-by-layer polyelectrolyte assembly and adsorption of a charged macroinitiator is described. We propose an easy method for monitoring the coil-to-globule phase transition of the polymer brush using an electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (E-QCM-D). The surface of these polymer modified electrodes shows reversible switching from the swollen to the collapsed state with temperature. As demonstrated from E-QCM-D measurements using an original signal processing method, the switch is operating in three reversible steps related to different interfacial viscosities. Moreover, it is shown that the one electron oxidation of ferrocene carboxylic acid is dramatically affected by the change from the swollen to the collapsed state of the polymer brush, showing a spectacular 86% decrease of the charge transfer resistance between the two states. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe - 287 Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-99471 ER -