Organic Bioelectronics: Design, Fabrication, Characterization, Modeling and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Organic bioelectronics is an interdisciplinary study that involves the integration of electronics and living systems. Applications of organic bioelectronics include, but are not limited to, tactile and metabolite sensors for electrophysiological recording and stimulation; robust epidermal and implantable devices that aid the monitoring of patient’s healthcare; electronics for both detection and characterization of biological materials, especially at the cellular and subcellular level; assistive technologies for individuals with brain-related disease or injury, such as paralysis, and artificial retinas; and new technology for protein structure–function measurements. Realizing the promise of organic bioelectronics requires research that crosses disciplines, such as electrical engineering, biology, chemistry, physics, and materials science.

The recent developments in organic bioelectronics are facing new challenges, such as lack of adequate metrological tools for cellular and molecular measurements, the difficulty in creating better sensors and developing novel fabrication techniques, the limited bandwidth and lower detection precision in biosensors and actuators, and the necessity of verifying whether massive parallelization of biosensors can bring the same benefits as those in silicon integrated circuits in consideration of Moore’s law. To address these challenges, this Special Issue invites high-quality submissions with significant scientific and technical contributions related to the key topics of organic bioelectronics as follows:

• Self-assembled electronic materials with long-term stability and biodegradability
• Massively parallel hardware architectures for high-performance computing
• Biotic interface between organic sensors and biological tissues
• Additive manufacturing for new information processing systems, sensors, actuators, and molecular fabrication down to the atomic level
• Multiphysics modeling of biocompatible and flexible bioelectronic devices.

Dr. Yi Yang
Dr. Robert Nawrocki
Guest Editors

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