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Organic Photo-Electrochemical Transistor-Based Biosensor: A Proof-of-Concept Study toward Highly Sensitive DNA Detection.

Jiajun SongPeng LinYi-Fan RuanWei-Wei ZhaoWeiwei WeiJin HuShanming KeXierong ZengJing-Juan XuHong-Yuan ChenWei RenFeng Yan
Published in: Advanced healthcare materials (2018)
Organic bioelectronics have shown promising applications for various sensing purposes due to their significant advantages in term of high flexibility, portability, easy fabrication, and biocompatibility. Here, a new type of organic device, organic photo-electrochemical transistor (OPECT), is reported, which is the combination of an organic electrochemical transistor and a photo-electrochemical gate electrode modified with CdS quantum dots (QDs). Thanks to the inherent amplification function of the transistor, the OPECT-based biosensor exhibits much higher sensitivity than that of a traditional biosensor. The sensing mechanism of the OPECT is attributed to the charge transfer between the photosensitive semiconductor CdS QDs and the gate electrode. In an OPECT-based DNA sensor, target DNA is labeled with Au nanoparticles (NPs) and captured on the gate electrode, which can influence the charge transfer on the gate caused by the exciton-plasmon interactions between CdS QDs and Au NPs. Consequently, a highly sensitive and selective DNA sensor with a detection limit of around 1 × 10-15 m is realized. It is expected that OPECTs can be developed as a high-performance platform for numerous biological detections in the future.
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