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To resolve the problem, a novel reagentless amperometric biosensor using a stacked methacrylic membrane system coated onto a screen-printed carbon paste electrode (SPE) for NH4+ ion determination is described. A mixture of pyruvate and NADH was immobilized in low molecular weight poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (pHEMA) membrane, which was then deposited over a photocured pHEMA membrane (photoHEMA) containing alanine dehydrogenase (AlaDH) enzyme. Due to the enzymatic reaction of AlaDH and the pyruvate substrate, NH4+ was consumed in the process and thus the signal from the electrocatalytic oxidation of NADH at an applied potential of +0.55 V was proportional to the NH4+ ion concentration under optimal conditions. The stacked methacrylate membranes responded rapidly and linearly to changes in NH4+ ion concentrations between 10\u2013100 mM, with a detection limit of 0.18 mM NH4+ ion. The reproducibility of the amperometrical NH4+ biosensor yielded low relative standard deviations between 1.4\u20134.9%. The stacked membrane biosensor has been successfully applied to the determination of NH4+ ion in spiked river water samples without pretreatment. A good correlation was found between the analytical results for NH4+ obtained from the biosensor and the Nessler spectrophotometric method.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s111009344","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,9,29]],"date-time":"2011-09-29T11:34:46Z","timestamp":1317296086000},"page":"9344-9360","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["Determination of Ammonium Ion Using a Reagentless Amperometric Biosensor Based on Immobilized Alanine Dehydrogenase"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Ling Ling","family":"Tan","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Chemical Sciences and Food Technology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor 43600, Malaysia"}]},{"given":"Ahmad","family":"Musa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Bandar Baru Nilai, Nilai, Negeri Sembilan D.K. 71800, Malaysia"}]},{"given":"Yook Heng","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Chemical Sciences and Food Technology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor 43600, Malaysia"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2011,9,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"91","DOI":"10.1016\/j.chroma.2005.05.042","article-title":"Fluorometric determination of ammonium ion by ion chromatography using postcolumn derivatization with o-phthaldialdehyde","volume":"1085","author":"Kuo","year":"2005","journal-title":"J. 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