%0 Journal Article %T Theoretical Analysis of an Amperometric Biosensor Based on Parallel Substrates Conversion %A T. Praveen %A L. Rajendran %J ISRN Electrochemistry %D 2014 %R 10.1155/2014/816789 %X The behaviour of an amperometric biosensor based on parallel substrates conversion for steady-state condition has been discussed. This analysis contains a nonlinear term related to enzyme kinetics. Simple and closed form of analytical expressions of concentrations and of biosensor current is derived. This model was originally reported by Vytautas Aseris and his team (2012). Concentrations of substrate and product are expressed in terms of single dimensionless parameter. A new approach to Homotopy perturbation method (HPM) is employed to solve the system of nonlinear reaction diffusion equations. Furthermore, in this work, the numerical solution of the problem is also reported using Matlab program. The analytical results are compared with the numerical results. The analytical result provided is reliable and efficient to understand the behavior of the system. 1. Introduction A biosensor is an analytical device, used for the detection of an analyte, which combines a biological component with a physiochemical detector [1]. Analyzed substrate is biochemically converted to a product when the biosensor operation is being undertaken. In most of the cases, biosensor response is directly proportional to the concentration of the reaction product [2]. The amperometric biosensors have proved to be reliable in various systems with applications in the field of medicine, food technology, and the environmental industry [3, 4]. The understanding of the kinetic peculiarities of biosensors is of crucial importance for their design. The mathematical modeling is rather widely used to improve the efficiency of the biosensors design and to optimize their configuration [5¨C8]. Since 1970s, various mathematical models of biosensors have been developed and used successfully to study and optimize analytical characteristics of biosensors [9¨C14]. Mathematical modeling of two-enzyme biosensors has been started in 1980s with the modeling of an amperometric monolayer enzyme electrode with two coimmobilized enzymes [15, 16]. Later, nonlinear mathematical models have been developed for amperometric two-enzyme biosensors with different enzymes [17, 18]. The numerical method of solving partial differential equations is to make calculation at all intervals of substrates concentration and at different diffusion and enzymatic reaction rates. The nonstationary diffusion equations [19], containing a nonlinear term related to the enzymatic reaction, are carried out using the implicit difference scheme [20]. In recent years, analytical solutions are reported for various types of biosensors %U http://www.hindawi.com/journals/isrn.electrochemistry/2014/816789/