BIOSENSORS AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING THEM

• Main Authors: PENDO, SHAUN, SHAH, RAJIV, GROVENDER, ERIC, A, HOSS, UDO, SOUNDARARAJAN, GOPIKRISHNAN, GOTTLIEB, REBECCA, K
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 20.09.2007
• Subjects: APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR; BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; COMPOSITIONS OR TEST PAPERS THEREFOR; CONDITION-RESPONSIVE CONTROL IN MICROBIOLOGICAL ORENZYMOLOGICAL PROCESSES; ELECTROGRAPHY; ENZYMOLOGY; HOLOGRAPHY; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONSONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS; MATERIALS THEREFOR; MEASURING; MEASURING OR TESTING PROCESSES INVOLVING ENZYMES, NUCLEICACIDS OR MICROORGANISMS; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES,e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTORDEVICES; PHYSICS; PROCESSES OF PREPARING SUCH COMPOSITIONS; SPIRITS; TESTING; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; VINEGAR; WINE

Embodiments of the invention provide analyte sensors having optimized permselective membranes and methods for making and using such sensors. Embodiments of the invention also provide analyte sensors such as those having porous matrices coated with an analyte sensing composition and methods for making and using such sensors. Illustrative embodiments include electrochemical glucose sensors having glucose oxidase coatings. Les modes de réalisation de l'invention concernent des capteurs d'analytes dotés de membranes permsélectives optimisées pour la fabrication et l'utilisation desdits capteurs. Les modes de réalisation de l'invention concernent également des capteurs d'analytes tels que ceux ayant des matrices poreuses revêtues d'une composition captant les analytes et des procédés pour fabriquer et utiliser lesdits capteurs. Des modes de réalisation illustratifs concernent des capteurs électrochimiques de glucose dotés de revêtements à base de glucose oxydase.