Descripción del proyecto
Un fototransistor rápido y flexible para dispositivos bioelectrónicos
La electrónica orgánica parece una interfaz ideal con la biología. Sus propiedades mecánicas suaves pueden simular estructuras biológicas, mientras que su capacidad de conducir iones además de electrones y agujeros abre un nuevo canal de comunicación con la biología. Los transistores, dispositivos que amplifican o conmutan señales electrónicas en circuitos, son componentes clave de estos sistemas. Hasta la fecha los investigadores no han podido fabricar transistores suficientemente rápidos para el procesamiento de datos. El proyecto LEAPh, financiado por el programa Marie Skłodowska Curie, desarrollará un novedoso fototransistor diseñado para aplicaciones de conmutación a alta velocidad. Los progresos del proyecto fomentarán el desarrollo y puesta en práctica de dispositivos bioelectrónicos orgánicos fiables y sin ruido.
Objetivo
Organic bioelectronics has emerged as a disruptive technology, introducing devices with unprecedented features of biocompatibility and functionality. The potential of organic materials resides not only in their favorable mechanical properties, which comply to those of biological tissues, but also on their ability to enable mixed electronic and ionic transport and on the possibility to finely tune their optoelectronic properties, such as optical absorption, charge photogeneration and transport. In addition, the synthesis of organic compounds can be tuned to further improve biocompatibility and to allow for chemical or biochemical functionalization, as well as to enable cost-effective and scalable processability of materials. For these reasons, a plethora of biocompatible, mechanically compliant, large area, multipoint biosensing and stimulating devices are now available, generating novel interaction routes between biological systems, bioelectronics devices, and consumer electronics, such as smartphones and portable devices.
Because of the general involvement of ionic transport in biological environments, organic bioelectronic devices are inherently slow, i.e. characterized by slow switching capabilities, limited to few kHz. This fundamental aspect brings along some limitations, such as low-frequency operation and fluctuations of the operating parameters. The goal of the LEAPh project is to develop a novel bioelectronic device specifically devised to address in an unprecedented way the low-operating frequency of current bioelectronics, as well as providing a noise-free measurement of biochemical and biological interactions. Moreover, the same technology could pave the way towards a new class of low-voltage organic electro-optical systems.
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybiosensing
- natural scienceschemical sciencesorganic chemistry
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbiological behavioural sciencesethologybiological interactions
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsmobile phones
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
16163 Genova
Italia