Development of Flexible Electronic Biosensors for Healthcare Engineering
A special issue of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosensors and Healthcare".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 17
Special Issue Editor
Interests: organic transistors; biosensors; enzyme-FET modelling; co-integration techniques
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Dear Colleagues,
The ascension of novel semiconductors, flexible substrates, C-related materials, and graphene electronic transducers occurs due to the recent success of alternative semiconductors. Graphene, carbon nanotubes, and pentacene are a few of the successful materials used in combination with enzyme entrapping or aptamers for biosensor fabrication. Pentacene has toxic precursors as its main disadvantage. Otherwise, non-toxic organic compounds based on nanoparticles as nano-cores with organic external shells are expected to replace these formulas. Future biosensors must match the non-toxicity of compounds with semiconductor technology and electronic signal processing. Hence, the integration solution seems to come from the bioreceptor immobilization in touch with the novel semiconductors and sometimes co-integrated with flexible electronic circuits.
The latest novelties in electronic biosensors indicate an increased interest in compatible technology between thin film transistors and bio-receptors for smart co-integration. Therefore, this Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following: green synthesis routes for bio-transistors, bio-receptor technology, biosignal processing, enzyme co-integration with FET transistors, nucleotide co-integration near graphene structures, DNA fragments and aptamers to enlarge the analyte pallet, and any technology that allows standardization of electronic transducers and bioreceptors.
Prof. Dr. Cristian Ravariu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- co-integration technologies
- enzymes immobilization
- flexible electronics
- biomaterials co-integration
- receptors
- technology
- electrical circuits
- bio-signal processing
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