Continual and accurate home monitoring of uric acid in urine samples with uricase-packaged nanoflowers assisted portable electrochemical uricometer

A convenient, fast and non-invasive portable electrochemical uricometer (PUM) assisted with the uricase-packaged nanoflowers (NFs) was constructed for continually and accurately monitoring of uric acid (UA) in urine samples at random intervals in just 20 s. Only a small amount of urine (50 μL) was needed for each test. Electrochemical deposition was adopted to modify gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) on screen-printed carbon electrodes (SPCE) and uricase-inorganic hybrid NFs (UOx-NFs) induced by calcium ions (Ca2+) were introduced for UA detection with expected specificity. Cyclic voltammetry (CV) (detection limit of 8.87 μM and liner range of 0-4 mM) and amperometry (detection limit of 0.82 μM and liner range of 0-5 mM) protocols were studied for UA detection, respectively. Finally, the uric acid in urine had be successfully continually monitored from volunteers with various dietary choosing, the results of which can be adopted as the effective evidence for uric acid control.