Flexible electrolyte-gated ion-selective sensors based on carbon nanotube networks

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3127-3134

  Melzer, Katharina ^a   Bhatt, Vijay Deep ^a   Schuster, Tobias ^a   Jaworska, Ewa ^b   Maksymiuk, Krzysztof ^b   Michalska, Agata ^b   Lugli, Paolo ^a   Scarpa, Giuseppe ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; electrolyte gated field effect transistor; flexible; ion selective membrane; ion sensitive field effect transistor

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; CARBON NANOTUBES; CELL SIGNALING; ELECTROLYTES; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; ION SENSITIVE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; IONS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; YARN;

BIOSENSING DEVICES; CARBON NANOTUBE NETWORK; CELL-CELL COMMUNICATIONS; FLEXIBLE; FLEXIBLE POLYIMIDE SUBSTRATE; ION SELECTIVE SENSORS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; SELECTIVE RESPONSE;

ION SELECTIVE MEMBRANES;

EID: 84928137898     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2014.2362679     Document Type: Article

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