Biosensors Based on Organic Electrochemical Transistors

Dear Colleagues,

Organic electrochemical transistor (OECT), as an ideal multi-function device, is suitable for both biochemical and bioelectrical sensing. Since it was first proposed by Wrighton and coworkers in 1984, OECTs of different types have demonstrated superb abilities in biosensing. OECTs exhibit a unique set of advantages for various sensing applications, such as high biocompatibility, excellent signal conversion and amplification capabilities, and compatibility with complex physiological environments. In view of the upsurging progress in constructing OECT-based biosensing devices., it is our pleasure to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue focused on the recent advances, future perspectives, and challenges for the development of biosensors using OECTs.

This Special Issue is devoted to all aspects of biosensors based on OECTs, including, but not limited to, the novel biological application scenarios of OECTs, the new sensing mechanisms of OECT-based biosensors with improved performance, the development and application of new polymers in OECT-based biosensors construction, as well as fabrication of flexible and stretchable OECT-based biosensors. Especially, OECT fabrication can be carried out on flexible/stretchable substrates, which can provide satisfactory mechanical compliance for various in vivo and in vitro biosensing applications, thus, constructing flexible/stretchable for both biochemical and bioelectrical sensing could attract huge attention.

This Special Issue, devoted to OECTs for biosensing, aims to focus on the most recent advances in the development of a variety of biological applications, material science, and structure engineering for biosensing, and will be composed of research articles, communications, reviews, and perspective studies. We look forward to your submission.

Dr. Yao Yao
Guest Editor

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• biosensing
• OECT
• biological application
• organic electronics
• flexible devices