Fig. 2. Design and characterisation of VHH-72-13C modified gold electrodes.
A Direct linkage via cysteine groups of VHH-72-13C. B Maleimide-thiol based grafting onto a functional PEG6 spacer. C C1s high resolution XPS spectra of Au-VHH-72-C13 and D Au-PEG6-VHH-72-C13 surfaces. E Differential pulse voltammograms (DPVs) of Au-VHH-72-C13 (black) and Au-PEG6-VHH-72-C13 (grey) in ferrocenemethanol (1 mM in 0.1 M PBS, pH 7.4). F Au-PEG6-MAL interface modified with 6-(ferrocenyl) hexanethiol and the corresponding cyclic voltammogram in PBS (0.1 M PBS, pH 7.4). Control: immobilization of ferrocene (grey line) scan rate: 100 mV s−1.