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Screen-printed organic electrochemical transistors for metabolite sensing

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Screen-printed organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) were tested as glucose and lactate sensors. The intrinsic amplification of the device allowed it to detect metabolites in low molecular range and validation tests were made on real human sweat. The development of an organically modified sol-gel solid electrolyte paves the way for all printed OECT-based biosensors.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Laurent Tournon for his help in designing the layout of the OECTs. This work was partially supported by Labex ARCANE (grant number ANR-11-LABX-0003-01).

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  1. Université Grenoble Alpes, F-38000, Grenoble, France

    Gaëtan Scheiblin, Abdelkader Aliane, Romain Coppard, Gilles Marchand & Pascal Mailley

  2. Department of Bioelectronics, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, CMP-EMSE, MOC, 13541, Gardanne, France

    Gaëtan Scheiblin, Xenofon Strakosas, Vincenzo F. Curto, Roísín M. Owens & George G. Malliaras

  3. CEA, LETI, MINATEC Campus, F-38054, Grenoble, France

    Gaëtan Scheiblin, Abdelkader Aliane, Gilles Marchand & Pascal Mailley

  4. CEA, LITEN, F-38054, Grenoble, France

    Romain Coppard

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Scheiblin, G., Aliane, A., Strakosas, X. et al. Screen-printed organic electrochemical transistors for metabolite sensing. MRS Communications 5, 507–511 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1557/mrc.2015.52

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