Sulphur Doped Graphitic Carbon Nitride as a Dual Biosensing Platform for the Detection of Cancer Biomarker CA15–3

Abstract

Herein, we report a dual biosensing platform operating viz. , electrochemical and fluorescence mode for the cancer biomarker, CA15–3 detection. A one-step strategy was employed to synthesize sulphur doped graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets (S-g-C 3 N 4 ). The presence of heteroatom (sulphur) in the molecular structure improved the optoelectronic properties and the surface functional group (–NH 2 ) facilitated the covalent binding of antibodies and improved the selectivity during the analysis. The proposed biosensing platform was able to quantify very low concentration of the cancer biomarker, CA15–3 (2.9 U mL −1 ) in human serum samples and thereby evidenced the usefulness of this platform for clinical analysis and early disease diagnosis.