Recent advances in MXenes-based glucose biosensors

It is established that monitoring blood glucose on a daily basis is one of the most effective solutions to prevent and treat diabetes. Consequently, developing a glucose sensing platform with outstanding sensing performance occupies an indispensable position for the early diagnosis and risk assessment of diabetes. Recently, biosensor has been deemed as a promising apparatus to acquire the signals for glucose monitoring based on 2D materials. However, it is unsatisfied to deploy some materials widely as a result of some inherent defects. Carbon nanotubes have comparatively high toxicity. MoS2 with unfavourable biocompatibility are still arduously implemented on being functionalized. Fortunately, MXene, a brand-new and rapidly developing two-dimensional material, exhibits marvellous application potential in the domain of biosensing. Therefore, it has exerted tremendous attention from diverse scientific fields owning to its remarkable properties, such as excellent hydrophilicity, metal-like conductivity, abundant surface functional groups, unique layered structure, large specific surface area and remarkable biocompatibility. This review mainly focuses on the main synthetic route of MXenes, as well as the recent advancements of biosensors involving MXenes as an electrode modifier for glucose detection. In addition, the promising prospects and challenges of glucose sensing technology based on MXenes are also discussed.