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Wu R, Meli D, Strzalka J, Narayanan S, Zhang Q, Paulsen BD, Rivnay J, Takacs CJ. Bridging length scales in organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors through internal strain and mesoscale dynamics. Nat Mater 2024; 23:648-655. [PMID: 38409601 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-01813-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2023] [Accepted: 01/18/2024] [Indexed: 02/28/2024]
Abstract
Understanding the structural and dynamic properties of disordered systems at the mesoscale is crucial. This is particularly important in organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors (OMIECs), which undergo significant and complex structural changes when operated in an electrolyte. In this study, we investigate the mesoscale strain, reversibility and dynamics of a model OMIEC material under external electrochemical potential using operando X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy. Our results reveal that strain and structural hysteresis depend on the sample's cycling history, establishing a comprehensive kinetic sequence bridging the macroscopic and microscopic behaviours of OMIECs. Furthermore, we uncover the equilibrium and non-equilibrium dynamics of charge carriers and material-doping states, highlighting the unexpected coupling between charge carrier dynamics and mesoscale order. These findings advance our understanding of the structure-dynamics-function relationships in OMIECs, opening pathways for designing and engineering materials with improved performance and functionality in non-equilibrium states during device operation.
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- Ruiheng Wu
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
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- Hard X-ray Material Science Division, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
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Wu R, Ji X, Ma Q, Paulsen BD, Tropp J, Rivnay J. Direct quantification of ion composition and mobility in organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors. Sci Adv 2024; 10:eadn8628. [PMID: 38657078 PMCID: PMC11042751 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adn8628] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2024] [Accepted: 03/19/2024] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
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Ion transport in organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors (OMIECs) is crucial due to its direct impact on device response time and operating mechanisms but is often assessed indirectly or necessitates extra assumptions. Operando x-ray fluorescence (XRF) is a powerful, direct probe for elemental characterization of bulk OMIECs and was used to directly quantify ion composition and mobility in a model OMIEC, poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS), during device operation. The first cycle revealed slow electrowetting and cation-proton exchange. Subsequent cycles showed rapid response with minor cation fluctuation (~5%). Comparison with optical-tracked electrochromic fronts revealed mesoscale structure-dependent proton transport. The calculated effective ion mobility demonstrated thickness-dependent behavior, emphasizing an interfacial ion transport pathway with a higher mobile ion density. The decoupling of interfacial effects on bulk ion mobility and the decoupling of cation and proton migration elucidate ion transport in conventional and emerging OMIEC-based devices and has broader implications for other ionic conductors writ large.
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- Ruiheng Wu
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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- DND-CAT, Synchrotron Research Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
- Department of Material Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60611, USA
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Matrone GM, van Doremaele ERW, Surendran A, Laswick Z, Griggs S, Ye G, McCulloch I, Santoro F, Rivnay J, van de Burgt Y. A modular organic neuromorphic spiking circuit for retina-inspired sensory coding and neurotransmitter-mediated neural pathways. Nat Commun 2024; 15:2868. [PMID: 38570478 PMCID: PMC10991258 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47226-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2023] [Accepted: 03/25/2024] [Indexed: 04/05/2024] Open
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Signal communication mechanisms within the human body rely on the transmission and modulation of action potentials. Replicating the interdependent functions of receptors, neurons and synapses with organic artificial neurons and biohybrid synapses is an essential first step towards merging neuromorphic circuits and biological systems, crucial for computing at the biological interface. However, most organic neuromorphic systems are based on simple circuits which exhibit limited adaptability to both external and internal biological cues, and are restricted to emulate only specific the functions of an individual neuron/synapse. Here, we present a modular neuromorphic system which combines organic spiking neurons and biohybrid synapses to replicate a neural pathway. The spiking neuron mimics the sensory coding function of afferent neurons from light stimuli, while the neuromodulatory activity of interneurons is emulated by neurotransmitters-mediated biohybrid synapses. Combining these functions, we create a modular connection between multiple neurons to establish a pre-processing retinal pathway primitive.
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- Giovanni Maria Matrone
- Microsystems, Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5612AJ, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.
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- Microsystems, Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5612AJ, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3TA, UK
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- Center for Biomedical Optics and Photonics (CBOP) & College of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, PR China
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3TA, UK
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Tissue Electronics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Naples, 80125, Italy
- Institute of Biological Information Processing IBI-3 Bioelectronics, Forschungszentrum Juelich, 52428, Juelich, Germany
- Neuroelectronic Interfaces, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and IT, RWTH Aachen, 52074, Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Microsystems, Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5612AJ, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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Gao Y, Zhou Y, Ji X, Graham AJ, Dundas CM, Miniel Mahfoud IE, Tibbett BM, Tan B, Partipilo G, Dodabalapur A, Rivnay J, Keitz BK. A hybrid transistor with transcriptionally controlled computation and plasticity. Nat Commun 2024; 15:1598. [PMID: 38383505 PMCID: PMC10881478 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45759-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2023] [Accepted: 02/02/2024] [Indexed: 02/23/2024] Open
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Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) are ideal devices for translating biological signals into electrical readouts and have applications in bioelectronics, biosensing, and neuromorphic computing. Despite their potential, developing programmable and modular methods for living systems to interface with OECTs has proven challenging. Here we describe hybrid OECTs containing the model electroactive bacterium Shewanella oneidensis that enable the transduction of biological computations to electrical responses. Specifically, we fabricated planar p-type OECTs and demonstrated that channel de-doping is driven by extracellular electron transfer (EET) from S. oneidensis. Leveraging this mechanistic understanding and our ability to control EET flux via transcriptional regulation, we used plasmid-based Boolean logic gates to translate biological computation into current changes within the OECT. Finally, we demonstrated EET-driven changes to OECT synaptic plasticity. This work enables fundamental EET studies and OECT-based biosensing and biocomputing systems with genetically controllable and modular design elements.
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- Yang Gao
- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
- Microelectronics Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78758, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Microelectronics Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78758, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
- Microelectronics Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78758, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.
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Keate RL, Tropp J, Wu R, Petty AJ, Ameer GA, Rivnay J. Decoupling the Influence of Poly(3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene)-Collagen Composite Characteristics on Cell Stemness. Adv Sci (Weinh) 2024:e2305562. [PMID: 38350724 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202305562] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2023] [Revised: 01/26/2024] [Indexed: 02/15/2024]
Abstract
Conductive polymers (CPs) are widely studied for their ability to influence a myriad of tissue systems. While their mixed ionic/electronic conductivity is commonly considered the primary driver of these benefits, the mechanisms by which CPs influence cell fate remain unclear. In this study, CP-biomaterial interactions are investigated using collagen, due to its widespread prevalence throughout the body and in tissue engineering constructs. Collagen is functionalized with both electrostatically and covalently bound derivatives of the CP poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) doped via backbone-tethered sulfonate groups, which enable high solubility and loading to the collagen biomatrix. Intrinsically doped scaffolds are compared to those incorporated with a commercially available PEDOT formulation, which is complexed with polyanionic polystyrene sulfonate (PSS). Low loadings of intrinsically doped PEDOT do not increase substrate conductivity compared to collagen alone, enabling separate investigation into CP loading and conductivity. Interestingly, higher PEDOT loading bolsters human mesenchymal stromal (hMSC) cell gene expression of Oct-4 and NANOG, which are key transcription factors regulating cell stemness. Conductive collagen composites with commercial PEDOT:PSS do not significantly affect the expression of these transcription factors in hMSCs. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that PEDOT regulates cellular fate independently from physical changes to the material but directly to the loading of the polymer.
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- Rebecca L Keate
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
- Department of Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
- Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60208, USA
- International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
- Chemistry of Life Processes Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60208, USA
- International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60208, USA
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Ameer G, Keate R, Bury M, Mendez-Santos M, Gerena A, Goedegebuure M, Rivnay J, Sharma A. Cell-free biodegradable electroactive scaffold for urinary bladder regeneration. Res Sq 2024:rs.3.rs-3817836. [PMID: 38352487 PMCID: PMC10862962 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3817836/v1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2024]
Abstract
Tissue engineering heavily relies on cell-seeded scaffolds to support the complex biological and mechanical requirements of a target organ. However, in addition to safety and efficacy, translation of tissue engineering technology will depend on manufacturability, affordability, and ease of adoption. Therefore, there is a need to develop scalable biomaterial scaffolds with sufficient bioactivity to eliminate the need for exogenous cell seeding. Herein, we describe synthesis, characterization, and implementation of an electroactive biodegradable elastomer for urinary bladder tissue engineering. To create an electrically conductive and mechanically robust scaffold to support bladder tissue regeneration, we developed a phase-compatible functionalization method wherein the hydrophobic conductive polymer poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) was polymerized in situ within a similarly hydrophobic citrate-based elastomer poly(octamethylene-citrate-co-octanol) (POCO) film. We demonstrate the efficacy of this film as a scaffold for bladder augmentation in athymic rats, comparing PEDOT-POCO scaffolds to mesenchymal stromal cell-seeded POCO scaffolds. PEDOT-POCO recovered bladder function and anatomical structure comparably to the cell-seeded POCO scaffolds and significantly better than non-cell seeded POCO scaffolds. This manuscript reports: (1) a new phase-compatible functionalization method that confers electroactivity to a biodegradable elastic scaffold, and (2) the successful restoration of the anatomy and function of an organ using a cell-free electroactive scaffold.
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Tropp J, Collins CP, Xie X, Daso RE, Mehta AS, Patel SP, Reddy MM, Levin SE, Sun C, Rivnay J. Conducting Polymer Nanoparticles with Intrinsic Aqueous Dispersibility for Conductive Hydrogels. Adv Mater 2024; 36:e2306691. [PMID: 37680065 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202306691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2023] [Revised: 08/16/2023] [Indexed: 09/09/2023]
Abstract
Conductive hydrogels are promising materials with mixed ionic-electronic conduction to interface living tissue (ionic signal transmission) with medical devices (electronic signal transmission). The hydrogel form factor also uniquely bridges the wet/soft biological environment with the dry/hard environment of electronics. The synthesis of hydrogels for bioelectronics requires scalable, biocompatible fillers with high electronic conductivity and compatibility with common aqueous hydrogel formulations/resins. Despite significant advances in the processing of carbon nanomaterials, fillers that satisfy all these requirements are lacking. Herein, intrinsically dispersible acid-crystalized PEDOT:PSS nanoparticles (ncrys-PEDOTX ) are reported which are processed through a facile and scalable nonsolvent induced phase separation method from commercial PEDOT:PSS without complex instrumentation. The particles feature conductivities of up to 410 S cm-1 , and when compared to other common conductive fillers, display remarkable dispersibility, enabling homogeneous incorporation at relatively high loadings within diverse aqueous biomaterial solutions without additives or surfactants. The aqueous dispersibility of the ncrys-PEDOTX particles also allows simple incorporation into resins designed for microstereolithography without sonication or surfactant optimization; complex biomedical structures with fine features (< 150 µm) are printed with up to 10% particle loading . The ncrys-PEDOTX particles overcome the challenges of traditional conductive fillers, providing a scalable, biocompatible, plug-and-play platform for soft organic bioelectronic materials.
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- Joshua Tropp
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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Lee I, Surendran A, Fleury S, Gimino I, Curtiss A, Fell C, Shiwarski DJ, Refy O, Rothrock B, Jo S, Schwartzkopff T, Mehta AS, Wang Y, Sipe A, John S, Ji X, Nikiforidis G, Feinberg AW, Hester J, Weber DJ, Veiseh O, Rivnay J, Cohen-Karni T. Electrocatalytic on-site oxygenation for transplanted cell-based-therapies. Nat Commun 2023; 14:7019. [PMID: 37945597 PMCID: PMC10636048 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42697-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2023] [Accepted: 10/19/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023] Open
Abstract
Implantable cell therapies and tissue transplants require sufficient oxygen supply to function and are limited by a delay or lack of vascularization from the transplant host. Previous exogenous oxygenation strategies have been bulky and had limited oxygen production or regulation. Here, we show an electrocatalytic approach that enables bioelectronic control of oxygen generation in complex cellular environments to sustain engineered cell viability and therapy under hypoxic stress and at high cell densities. We find that nanostructured sputtered iridium oxide serves as an ideal catalyst for oxygen evolution reaction at neutral pH. We demonstrate that this approach exhibits a lower oxygenation onset and selective oxygen production without evolution of toxic byproducts. We show that this electrocatalytic on site oxygenator can sustain high cell loadings (>60k cells/mm3) in hypoxic conditions in vitro and in vivo. Our results showcase that exogenous oxygen production devices can be readily integrated into bioelectronic platforms, enabling high cell loadings in smaller devices with broad applicability.
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- Inkyu Lee
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Material Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA
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- Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Interactive Computing and Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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Alarcon-Espejo P, Sarabia-Riquelme R, Matrone GM, Shahi M, Mahmoudi S, Rupasinghe GS, Le VN, Mantica AM, Qian D, Balk TJ, Rivnay J, Weisenberger M, Paterson AF. High-Hole-Mobility Fiber Organic Electrochemical Transistors for Next-Generation Adaptive Neuromorphic Bio-Hybrid Technologies. Adv Mater 2023:e2305371. [PMID: 37824715 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202305371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2023] [Revised: 09/29/2023] [Indexed: 10/14/2023]
Abstract
The latest developments in fiber design and materials science are paving the way for fibers to evolve from parts in passive components to functional parts in active fabrics. Designing conformable, organic electrochemical transistor (OECT) structures using poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) fibers has excellent potential for low-cost wearable bioelectronics, bio-hybrid devices, and adaptive neuromorphic technologies. However, to achieve high-performance, stable devices from PEDOT:PSS fibers, approaches are required to form electrodes on fibers with small diameters and poor wettability, that leads to irregular coatings. Additionally, PEDOT:PSS-fiber fabrication needs to move away from small batch processing to roll-to-roll or continuous processing. Here, it is shown that synergistic effects from a superior electrode/organic interface, and exceptional fiber alignment from continuous processing, enable PEDOT:PSS fiber-OECTs with stable contacts, high µC* product (1570.5 F cm-1 V-1 s-1 ), and high hole mobility over 45 cm2 V-1 s-1 . Fiber-electrochemical neuromorphic organic devices (fiber-ENODes) are developed to demonstrate that the high mobility fibers are promising building blocks for future bio-hybrid technologies. The fiber-ENODes demonstrate synaptic weight update in response to dopamine, as well as a form factor closely matching the neuronal axon terminal.
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- Paula Alarcon-Espejo
- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Centre for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Centre for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Centre for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Centre for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Centre for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Centre for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Centre for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Centre for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Centre for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA
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Wu R, Meli D, Rivnay J. The hole truth. Nat Mater 2023; 22:1055-1056. [PMID: 37644224 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-023-01643-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
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- Ruiheng Wu
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
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Gao Y, Zhou Y, Ji X, Graham AJ, Dundas CM, Mahfoud IEM, Tibbett BM, Tan B, Partipilo G, Dodabalapur A, Rivnay J, Keitz BK. A Hybrid Transistor with Transcriptionally Controlled Computation and Plasticity. bioRxiv 2023:2023.08.16.553547. [PMID: 37645977 PMCID: PMC10462107 DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.16.553547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
Abstract
Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) are ideal devices for translating biological signals into electrical readouts and have applications in bioelectronics, biosensing, and neuromorphic computing. Despite their potential, developing programmable and modular methods for living systems to interface with OECTs has proven challenging. Here we describe hybrid OECTs containing the model electroactive bacterium Shewanella oneidensis that enable the transduction of biological computations to electrical responses. Specifically, we fabricated planar p-type OECTs and demonstrated that channel de-doping is driven by extracellular electron transfer (EET) from S. oneidensis. Leveraging this mechanistic understanding and our ability to control EET flux via transcriptional regulation, we used plasmid-based Boolean logic gates to translate biological computation into current changes within the OECT. Finally, we demonstrated EET-driven changes to OECT synaptic plasticity. This work enables fundamental EET studies and OECT-based biosensing and biocomputing systems with genetically controllable and modular design elements.
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- Yang Gao
- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
- Microelectronics Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78758, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
- Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Microelectronics Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78758, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
- Microelectronics Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78758, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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Wu R, Paulsen BD, Ma Q, McCulloch I, Rivnay J. Quantitative Composition and Mesoscale Ion Distribution in p-Type Organic Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2023. [PMID: 37326843 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c04449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Understanding the ionic composition and distribution in organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors (OMIECs) is crucial for understanding their structure-property relationships. Despite this, direct measurements of OMIEC ionic composition and distribution are not common. In this work, we investigated the ionic composition and mesoscopic structure of three typical p-type OMIEC materials: an ethylene glycol-treated crosslinked OMIEC with a large excess fixed anionic charge (EG/GOPS-PEDOT:PSS), an acid-treated OMIEC with a tunable fixed anionic charge (crys-PEDOT:PSS), and a single-component OMIEC without any fixed anionic charge (pg2T-TT). A combination of X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopies, gravimetry, coulometry, and grazing incidence small-angle X-ray scattering (GISAXS) techniques was employed to characterize these OMIECs following electrolyte exposure and electrochemical cycling. In particular, XRF provided quantitative ion-to-monomer compositions for these OMIECs from passive ion uptake following aqueous electrolyte exposure and potential-driven ion uptake/expulsion following electrochemical doping and dedoping. Single-ion (cation) transport in EG/GOPS-PEDOT:PSS due to Donnan exclusion was directly confirmed, while significant fixed anion concentrations in crys-PEDOT:PSS doping and dedoping were shown to occur through mixed anion and cation transport. Controlling the fixed anionic (PSS-) charge density in crys-PEDOT:PSS mapped the strength of Donnan exclusion in OMIEC systems following a Donnan-Gibbs model. Anion transport dominated pg2T-TT doping and dedoping, but a surprising degree of anionic charge trapping (∼1020 cm-3) was observed. GISAXS revealed minimal ion segregation both between PEDOT- and PSS-rich domains in EG/GOPS-PEDOT:PSS and between amorphous and semicrystalline domains in pg2T-TT but showed significant ion segregation in crys-PEDOT:PSS at length scales of tens of nm, ascribed to inter-nanofibril void space. These results bring new clarity to the ionic composition and distribution of OMIECs which are crucial for accurately connecting the structure and properties of these materials.
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- Ruiheng Wu
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- DND-CAT, Synchrotron Research Center, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, United States
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Schafer EA, Davis E, Manzer Z, Daniel S, Rivnay J. Hybrid Supported Lipid Bilayers for Bioinspired Bioelectronics with Enhanced Stability. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2023; 15:24638-24647. [PMID: 37158805 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c01054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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A promising new class of biosensors leverages the sensing mechanisms of living cells by incorporating native transmembrane proteins into biomimetic membranes. Conducting polymers (CPs) can further improve the detection of electrochemical signals from these biological recognition elements through their low electrical impedance. Supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) on CPs mimic the structure and biology of the cell membrane to enable such sensing, but their extrapolation to new target analytes and healthcare applications has been difficult due to their poor stability and limited membrane properties. Blending native phospholipids with synthetic block copolymers to create a hybrid SLB (HSLB) may address these challenges by allowing for the tuning of chemical and physical properties during membrane design. We establish the first example of HSLBs on a CP device and show that polymer incorporation enhances bilayer resilience and thus offers important benefits toward bio-hybrid bioelectronics for sensing applications. Importantly, HSLBs outperform traditional phospholipid bilayers in stability by exhibiting strong electrical sealing after exposure to physiologically relevant enzymes that cause phospholipid hydrolysis and membrane degradation. We investigate the impact of HSLB composition on membranes and device performance and demonstrate the ability to finely adjust the lateral diffusivity of HSLBs with modest changes in block copolymer content through a large compositional range. The inclusion of the block copolymer into the bilayer does not disrupt electrical sealing on CP electrodes, an essential metric for electrochemical sensors, or the insertion of a representative transmembrane protein. This work interfacing tunable and stable HSLBs with CPs paves the way for future bioinspired sensors that combine the exciting developments from both bioelectronics and synthetic biology.
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- Emily A Schafer
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, United States
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Marcial-Hernandez R, Giacalone S, Neal WG, Lee CS, Gilhooly-Finn PA, Mastroianni G, Meli D, Wu R, Rivnay J, Palma M, Nielsen CB. Aqueous processing of organic semiconductors enabled by stable nanoparticles with built-in surfactants. Nanoscale 2023; 15:6793-6801. [PMID: 36946985 DOI: 10.1039/d2nr06024h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The introduction of oligoether side chains onto a polymer backbone can help to stabilise polymeric dispersions in water without the necessity of surfactants or additives when conjugated polymer nanoparticles are prepared. A series of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) derivatives with different content of a polar thiophene derivative 3-((2-methoxyethoxy)methyl)thiophene was interrogated to find the effect of the polar chains on the stability of the formed nanoparticles, as well as their structural, optical, electrochemical, and electrical properties. Findings indicated that incorporation of 10-20 percent of the polar side chain led to particles that are stable over a period of 42 days, with constant particle size and polydispersity, however the particles from the polymer with 30 percent polar side chain showed aggregation effects. The polymer dispersions showed a stronger solid-like behaviour in water with decreasing polar side chain content, while thin film deposition from water was found to afford globular morphologies and crystallites with more isotropic orientation compared to conventional solution-processed films. As a proof-of-principle, field-effect transistors were fabricated directly from the aqueous dispersions demonstrating that polymers with hydrophilic moieties can be processed in water without the requirement of surfactants.
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- Department of Chemistry, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK.
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- School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK.
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Ji X, Lin X, Rivnay J. Organic electrochemical transistors as on-site signal amplifiers for electrochemical aptamer-based sensing. Nat Commun 2023; 14:1665. [PMID: 36966131 PMCID: PMC10039935 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37402-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2022] [Accepted: 03/15/2023] [Indexed: 03/27/2023] Open
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Electrochemical aptamer-based sensors are typically deployed as individual, passive, surface-functionalized electrodes, but they exhibit limited sensitivity especially when the area of the electrode is reduced for miniaturization purposes. We demonstrate that organic electrochemical transistors (electrolyte gated transistors with volumetric gating) can serve as on-site amplifiers to improve the sensitivity of electrochemical aptamer-based sensors. By monolithically integrating an Au working/sensing electrode, on-chip Ag/AgCl reference electrode, and Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-poly(styrenesulfonate) counter electrode - also serving as the channel of an organic electrochemical transistor- we can simultaneously perform testing of organic electrochemical transistors and traditional electroanalytical measurement on electrochemical aptamer-based sensors including cyclic voltammetry and square-wave voltammetry. This device can directly amplify the current from the electrochemical aptamer-based sensor via the in-plane current modulation in the counter electrode/transistor channel. The integrated sensor can sense transforming growth factor beta 1 with 3 to 4 orders of magnitude enhancement in sensitivity compared to that in an electrochemical aptamer-based sensor (292 μA/dec vs. 85 nA/dec). This approach is believed to be universal, and can be applied to a wide range of tethered electrochemical reporter-based sensors to enhance sensitivity, aiding in sensor miniaturization and easing the burden on backend signal processing.
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- Xudong Ji
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Department of Psychology, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.
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Maria IP, Griggs S, Rashid RB, Paulsen BD, Surgailis J, Thorley K, Le VN, Harrison GT, Combe C, Hallani R, Giovannitti A, Paterson AF, Inal S, Rivnay J, McCulloch I. Enhancing the Backbone Coplanarity of n-Type Copolymers for Higher Electron Mobility and Stability in Organic Electrochemical Transistors. Chem Mater 2022; 34:8593-8602. [PMID: 36248228 PMCID: PMC9558307 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c01552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2022] [Revised: 09/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Electron-transporting (n-type) conjugated polymers have recently been applied in numerous electrochemical applications, where both ion and electron transport are required. Despite continuous efforts to improve their performance and stability, n-type conjugated polymers with mixed conduction still lag behind their hole-transporting (p-type) counterparts, limiting the functions of electrochemical devices. In this work, we investigate the effect of enhanced backbone coplanarity on the electrochemical activity and mixed ionic-electronic conduction properties of n-type polymers during operation in aqueous media. Through substitution of the widely employed electron-deficient naphthalene diimide (NDI) unit for the core-extended naphthodithiophene diimide (NDTI) units, the resulting polymer shows a more planar backbone with closer packing, leading to an increase in the electron mobility in organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) by more than two orders of magnitude. The NDTI-based polymer shows a deep-lying lowest unoccupied molecular orbital level, enabling operation of the OECT closer to 0 V vs Ag/AgCl, where fewer parasitic reactions with molecular oxygen occur. Enhancing the backbone coplanarity also leads to a lower affinity toward water uptake during cycling, resulting in improved stability during continuous electrochemical charging and ON-OFF switching relative to the NDI derivative. Furthermore, the NDTI-based polymer also demonstrates near-perfect shelf-life stability over a month-long test, exhibiting a negligible decrease in both the maximum on-current and transconductance. Our results highlight the importance of polymer backbone design for developing stable, high-performing n-type materials with mixed ionic-electronic conduction in aqueous media.
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- Iuliana P. Maria
- Department
of Chemistry and Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, U.K.
- Department
of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K.
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- Department
of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K.
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- Department
of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-0001, United States
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- Department
of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-0001, United States
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- Biological
and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0055, United States
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- Department
of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University
of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0055, United States
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- KAUST
Solar Center, King Abdullah University of
Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- KAUST
Solar Center, King Abdullah University of
Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- KAUST
Solar Center, King Abdullah University of
Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford
University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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- Department
of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University
of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0055, United States
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- Biological
and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department
of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-0001, United States
- Simpson
Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60611, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K.
- KAUST
Solar Center, King Abdullah University of
Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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Keate RL, Tropp J, Collins CP, Ware HOT, Petty AJ, Ameer GA, Sun C, Rivnay J. 3D-Printed Electroactive Hydrogel Architectures with Sub-100 µm Resolution Promote Myoblast Viability. Macromol Biosci 2022; 22:e2200103. [PMID: 35596668 PMCID: PMC9879017 DOI: 10.1002/mabi.202200103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2022] [Revised: 04/30/2022] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
Abstract
3D-printed hydrogel scaffolds functionalized with conductive polymers have demonstrated significant potential in regenerative applications for their structural tunability, physiochemical compatibility, and electroactivity. Controllably generating conductive hydrogels with fine features, however, has proven challenging. Here, micro-continuous liquid interface production (μCLIP) method is utilized to 3D print poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) (pHEMA) hydrogels. With a unique in-situ polymerization approach, a sulfonated monomer is first incorporated into the hydrogel matrix and subsequently polymerized into a conjugated polyelectrolyte, poly(4-(2,3-dihydro-thieno[3,4-b][1,4]dioxin-2-ylmethoxy)-butane-1 sulfonic acid sodium salt (PEDOT-S). Rod structures are fabricated at different crosslinking levels to investigate PEDOT-S incorporation and its effect on bulk hydrogel electronic and mechanical properties. After demonstrating that PEDOT-S does not significantly compromise the structures of the bulk material, pHEMA scaffolds are fabricated via μCLIP with features smaller than 100 µm. Scaffold characterization confirms PEDOT-S incorporation bolstered conductivity while lowering overall modulus. Finally, C2C12 myoblasts are seeded on PEDOT-pHEMA structures to verify cytocompatibility and the potential of this material in future regenerative applications. PEDOT-pHEMA scaffolds promote increased cell viability relative to their non-conductive counterparts and differentially influence cell organization. Taken together, this study presents a promising new approach for fabricating complex conductive hydrogel structures for regenerative applications.
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- Rebecca L. Keate
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA,Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA,Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA,Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA,Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- Mechanical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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- Mechanical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA,Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA,Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA,Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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- Mechanical Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA,Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA,Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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Rashid RB, Evans AM, Hall LA, Dasari RR, Roesner EK, Marder SR, D'Allesandro DM, Dichtel WR, Rivnay J. A Semiconducting Two-Dimensional Polymer as an Organic Electrochemical Transistor Active Layer. Adv Mater 2022; 34:e2110703. [PMID: 35355340 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202110703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2021] [Revised: 02/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) are devices with broad potential in bioelectronic sensing, circuits, and neuromorphic hardware. Their unique properties arise from the use of organic mixed ionic/electronic conductors (OMIECs) as the active channel. Typical OMIECs are linear polymers, where defined and controlled microstructure/morphology, and reliable characterization of transport and charging can be elusive. Semiconducting two-dimensional polymers (2DPs) present a new avenue in OMIEC materials development, enabling electronic transport along with precise control of well-defined channels ideal for ion transport/intercalation. To this end, a recently reported 2DP, TIIP, is synthesized and patterned at 10 µm resolution as the channel of a transistor. The TIIP films demonstrate textured microstructure and show semiconducting properties with accessible oxidation states. Operating in an aqueous electrolyte, the 2DP-OECT exhibits a device-scale hole mobility of 0.05 cm2 V-1 s-1 and a µC* figure of merit of 1.75 F cm-1 V-1 s-1 . 2DP OMIECs thus offer new synthetic degrees of freedom to control OECT performance and may enable additional opportunities such as ion selectivity or improved stability through reduced morphological modulation during device operation.
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- Reem B Rashid
- Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
- University of Colorado Boulder, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, Boulder, CO, 80303, USA
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Chemistry and Nanoscience Center, Golden, CO, 80401, USA
- University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Boulder, CO, 80303, USA
- University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Chemistry, Boulder, CO, 80303, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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Parr ZS, Borges-González J, Rashid RB, Thorley KJ, Meli D, Paulsen BD, Strzalka J, Rivnay J, Nielsen CB. From p- to n-Type Mixed Conduction in Isoindigo-Based Polymers through Molecular Design. Adv Mater 2022; 34:e2107829. [PMID: 35075720 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202107829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2021] [Revised: 12/06/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
Organic mixed ionic and electronic conductors are of significant interest for bioelectronic applications. Here, three different isoindigoid building blocks are used to obtain polymeric mixed conductors with vastly different structural and electronic properties which can be further fine-tuned through the choice of comonomer unit. This work shows how careful design of the isoindigoid scaffold can afford highly planar polymer structures with high degrees of electronic delocalization, while subtle structural modifications can control the dominant charge carrier (hole or electron) when probed in organic electrochemical transistors. A combination of experimental and computational techniques is employed to probe electrochemical, structural, and mixed ionic and electronic properties of the polymer series which in turn allows the derivation of important structure-property relations for this promising class of materials in the context of organic bioelectronics. Ultimately, these findings are used to outline robust molecular-design strategies for isoindigo-based mixed conductors that can support efficient p-type, n-type, and ambipolar transistor operation in an aqueous environment.
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- Zachary S Parr
- Department of Chemistry, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Center for Applied Energy Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40511, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- X-Ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
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Marks A, Chen X, Wu R, Rashid RB, Jin W, Paulsen BD, Moser M, Ji X, Griggs S, Meli D, Wu X, Bristow H, Strzalka J, Gasparini N, Costantini G, Fabiano S, Rivnay J, McCulloch I. Synthetic Nuances to Maximize n-Type Organic Electrochemical Transistor and Thermoelectric Performance in Fused Lactam Polymers. J Am Chem Soc 2022; 144:4642-4656. [PMID: 35257589 PMCID: PMC9084553 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c00735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
Abstract
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A series
of fully fused n-type mixed conduction lactam polymers p(g7NCnN), systematically increasing
the alkyl side chain content, are synthesized via an inexpensive,
nontoxic, precious-metal-free aldol polycondensation. Employing these
polymers as channel materials in organic electrochemical transistors
(OECTs) affords state-of-the-art n-type performance with p(g7NC10N) recording an OECT electron mobility of 1.20 ×
10–2 cm2 V–1 s–1 and a μC* figure of merit
of 1.83 F cm–1 V–1 s–1. In parallel to high OECT performance, upon solution doping with
(4-(1,3-dimethyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-benzoimidazol-2-yl)phenyl)dimethylamine
(N-DMBI), the highest thermoelectric performance is observed for p(g7NC4N), with a maximum electrical conductivity of
7.67 S cm–1 and a power factor of 10.4 μW
m–1 K–2. These results are among
the highest reported for n-type polymers. Importantly, while this
series of fused polylactam organic mixed ionic–electronic conductors
(OMIECs) highlights that synthetic molecular design strategies to
bolster OECT performance can be translated to also achieve high organic
thermoelectric (OTE) performance, a nuanced synthetic approach must
be used to optimize performance. Herein, we outline the performance
metrics and provide new insights into the molecular design guidelines
for the next generation of high-performance n-type materials for mixed
conduction applications, presenting for the first time the results
of a single polymer series within both OECT and OTE applications.
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- Adam Marks
- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K
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- KAUST Solar Center (KSC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University, NorrköpingSE-60174, Sweden
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K
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- Department of Material Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K
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- X-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, U.K
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- Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University, NorrköpingSE-60174, Sweden
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K
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Alsufyani M, Stoeckel M, Chen X, Thorley K, Hallani RK, Puttisong Y, Ji X, Meli D, Paulsen BD, Strzalka J, Regeta K, Combe C, Chen H, Tian J, Rivnay J, Fabiano S, McCulloch I. Lactone Backbone Density in Rigid Electron‐Deficient Semiconducting Polymers Enabling High n‐type Organic Thermoelectric Performance. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202113078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
Affiliation(s)
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- Physical Science and Engineering Division King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry University of Kentucky Lexington KY 40506-0055 USA
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- Physical Science and Engineering Division King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology Linköping University 58183 Linköping Sweden
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering Department of Materials Science and Engineering Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Road Evanston IL 60208 USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering Department of Materials Science and Engineering Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Road Evanston IL 60208 USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering Department of Materials Science and Engineering Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Road Evanston IL 60208 USA
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- X-Ray Science Division Argonne National Laboratory Lemont IL 60439 USA
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- Physical Science and Engineering Division King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
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- Physical Science and Engineering Division King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
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- Physical Science and Engineering Division King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry University of Oxford Oxford OX1 3TA UK
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering Department of Materials Science and Engineering Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Road Evanston IL 60208 USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute Northwestern University Chicago IL 60611 USA
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- Department of Science and Technology Linköping University 60174 Norrköping Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry University of Oxford Oxford OX1 3TA UK
- Physical Science and Engineering Division King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
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- Mehdi Nikkhah
- School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Biodesign Virginia G. Piper Center for Personalized Diagnostics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States.
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Simpson Querrey Institute, Center for Advanced Regenerative Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States.
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Abstract
Operando characterization plays an important role in revealing the structure-property relationships of organic mixed ionic/electronic conductors (OMIECs), enabling the direct observation of dynamic changes during device operation and thus guiding the development of new materials. This review focuses on the application of different operando characterization techniques in the study of OMIECs, highlighting the time-dependent and bias-dependent structure, composition, and morphology information extracted from these techniques. We first illustrate the needs, requirements, and challenges of operando characterization then provide an overview of relevant experimental techniques, including spectroscopy, scattering, microbalance, microprobe, and electron microscopy. We also compare different in silico methods and discuss the interplay of these computational methods with experimental techniques. Finally, we provide an outlook on the future development of operando for OMIEC-based devices and look toward multimodal operando techniques for more comprehensive and accurate description of OMIECs.
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- Ruiheng Wu
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZD, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.,Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, United States
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Lo CY, Wu Y, Awuyah E, Meli D, Nguyen DM, Wu R, Xu B, Strzalka J, Rivnay J, Martin DC, Kayser LV. Influence of the molecular weight and size distribution of PSS on mixed ionic-electronic transport in PEDOT:PSS. Polym Chem 2022; 13:2764-2775. [PMID: 36189107 PMCID: PMC9523623 DOI: 10.1039/d2py00271j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
The commercially available polyelectrolyte complex poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) is ubiquitous in organic and hybrid electronics. As such, it has often been used as a benchmark material for fundamental studies and the development of new electronic devices. Yet, most studies on PEDOT:PSS have focused on its electronic conductivity in dry environments, with less consideration given to its ion transport, coupled ionic-electronic transport, and charge storage properties in aqueous environments. These properties are essential for applications in bioelectronics (sensors, actuators), charge storage devices, and electrochromic displays. Importantly, past studies on mixed ionic-electronic transport in PEDOT:PSS neglected to consider how the molecular structure of PSS affects mixed ionic-electronic transport. Herein, we therefore investigated the effect of the molecular weight and size distribution of PSS on the electronic properties and morphology of PEDOT:PSS both in dry and aqueous environments, and overall performance in organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs). Using reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization with two different chain transfer agents, six PSS samples with monomodal, narrow (Đ = 1.1) and broad (Đ = 1.7) size distributions and varying molecular weights were synthesized and used as matrices for PEDOT. We found that using higher molecular weight of PSS (M n = 145 kg mol-1) and broad dispersity led to OECTs with the highest transconductance (up to 16 mS) and [μC * ] values (~140 F·cm-1V-1s-1) in PEDOT:PSS, despite having a lower volumetric capacitance (C * = 35 ± 4 F cm-3). The differences were best explained by studying the microstructure of the films by atomic force microscopy (AFM). We found that heterogeneities in the PEDOT:PSS films (interconnected and large PEDOT- and PSS-rich domains) obtained from high molecular weight and high dispersity PSS led to higher charge mobility (μ OECT ~ 4 cm2V-1s-1) and hence transconductance. These studies highlight the importance of considering molecular weight and size distribution in organic mixed ionic-electronic conductor, and could pave the way to designing high performance organic electronics for biological interfaces.
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- Chun-Yuan Lo
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 19716
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 19716
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 19716
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 19716
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208
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- X-Ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60611
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 19716
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 19716
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 19716
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 19716
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Alsufyani M, Stoeckel MA, Chen X, Thorley K, Hallani RK, Puttisong Y, Ji X, Meli D, Paulsen BD, Strzalka J, Regeta K, Combe C, Chen H, Tian J, Rivnay J, Fabiano S, McCulloch I. Lactone Backbone Density in Rigid Electron-Deficient Semiconducting Polymers Enabling High n-type Organic Thermoelectric Performance. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 61:e202113078. [PMID: 34797584 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202113078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
Abstract
Three lactone-based rigid semiconducting polymers were designed to overcome major limitations in the development of n-type organic thermoelectrics, namely electrical conductivity and air stability. Experimental and theoretical investigations demonstrated that increasing the lactone group density by increasing the benzene content from 0 % benzene (P-0), to 50 % (P-50), and 75 % (P-75) resulted in progressively larger electron affinities (up to 4.37 eV), suggesting a more favorable doping process, when employing (N-DMBI) as the dopant. Larger polaron delocalization was also evident, due to the more planarized conformation, which is proposed to lead to a lower hopping energy barrier. As a consequence, the electrical conductivity increased by three orders of magnitude, to achieve values of up to 12 S cm and Power factors of 13.2 μWm-1 K-2 were thereby enabled. These findings present new insights into material design guidelines for the future development of air stable n-type organic thermoelectrics.
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- Maryam Alsufyani
- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3TA, UK
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- Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University, 60174, Norrköping, Sweden
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- Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506-0055, USA
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- Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, 58183, Linköping, Sweden
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- X-Ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3TA, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.,Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University, 60174, Norrköping, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3TA, UK.,Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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Rashid RB, Ji X, Rivnay J. Organic electrochemical transistors in bioelectronic circuits. Biosens Bioelectron 2021; 190:113461. [PMID: 34197997 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2021.113461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2021] [Revised: 06/15/2021] [Accepted: 06/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
The organic electrochemical transistor (OECT) represents a versatile and impactful electronic building block in the areas of printed electronics, bioelectronics, and neuromorphic computing. Significant efforts in OECTs have focused on device physics, new active material design and synthesis, and on preliminary implementation of individual transistors as proof-of-concept components for sensing and computation. However, as most of the current studies are based on single devices, the integration of OECTs into circuits or high-level systems has lagged. In this review, we focus on recent efforts to incorporate individual OECTs into digital, analog, and neuromorphic circuits, and lay out important considerations relevant for (hybrid) systems integration. We summarize the operation principles and the functions of OECT-based circuits and discuss the approaches for wireless power and data transmission for practicality in biological and bio-inspired applications. Finally, we comment on the future directions and challenges facing OECT circuits from both a fundamental and applied perspective.
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- Reem B Rashid
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA; Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA; Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA; Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.
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Paulsen BD, Giovannitti A, Wu R, Strzalka J, Zhang Q, Rivnay J, Takacs CJ. Electrochemistry of Thin Films with In Situ/Operando Grazing Incidence X-Ray Scattering: Bypassing Electrolyte Scattering for High Fidelity Time Resolved Studies. Small 2021; 17:e2103213. [PMID: 34549509 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202103213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2021] [Revised: 07/29/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
Electroactive polymer thin films undergo repeated reversible structural change during operation in electrochemical applications. While synchrotron X-ray scattering is powerful for the characterization of stand-alone and ex situ organic thin films, in situ/operando structural characterization has been underutilized-in large part due to complications arising from supporting electrolyte scattering. This has greatly hampered the development of application relevant structure property relationships. Therefore, a new methodology for in situ/operando X-ray characterization that separates the incident and scattered X-ray beam path from the electrolyte is developed. As a proof of concept, the operando structural characterization of weakly-scattering, organic mixed conducting thin films in an aqueous electrolyte environment is demonstrated, accessing previously unexplored changes in the π-π peak and diffuse scatter, while capturing the solvent swollen thin film structure which is inaccessible in previous ex situ studies. These in situ/operando measurements improve the sensitivity to structural changes, capturing minute changes not possible ex situ, and have multimodal potential such as combined Raman measurements that also serve to validate the true in situ/operando conditions of the cell. Finally, new directions enabled by this in situ/operando cell design are examined and state of the art measurements are compared.
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- Bryan D Paulsen
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- X-Ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- X-Ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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Rashid RB, Du W, Griggs S, Maria IP, McCulloch I, Rivnay J. Ambipolar inverters based on cofacial vertical organic electrochemical transistor pairs for biosignal amplification. Sci Adv 2021; 7:eabh1055. [PMID: 34516877 PMCID: PMC8442873 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abh1055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2021] [Accepted: 07/20/2021] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
Abstract
On-site signal amplification for bioelectronic sensing is a desirable approach to improving recorded signal quality and to reducing the burden on signal transmission and back-end electronics. While organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) have been used as local transducers of bioelectronic signals, their current output presents challenges for implementation. OECT-based circuits offer new opportunities for high-performance signal processing. In this work, we introduce an active sensing node based on cofacial vertical OECTs forming an ambipolar complementary inverter. The inverter, which shows a voltage gain of 28, is composed of two OECTs on opposite side walls of a single active area, resulting in a footprint identical to a planar OECT. The inverter is used as an analog voltage preamplifier for recording electrocardiogram signals when biased at the input voltage corresponding to peak gain. We further demonstrate compatibility with nontraditional fabrication methods with potential benefits for rapid prototyping and large-area printed electronics.
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- Reem B. Rashid
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- Physical Sciences and Engineering Division, KAUST Solar Center (KSC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK
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- Physical Sciences and Engineering Division, KAUST Solar Center (KSC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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Hallani RK, Paulsen BD, Petty AJ, Sheelamanthula R, Moser M, Thorley KJ, Sohn W, Rashid RB, Savva A, Moro S, Parker JP, Drury O, Alsufyani M, Neophytou M, Kosco J, Inal S, Costantini G, Rivnay J, McCulloch I. Regiochemistry-Driven Organic Electrochemical Transistor Performance Enhancement in Ethylene Glycol-Functionalized Polythiophenes. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:11007-11018. [PMID: 34192463 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c03516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Novel p-type semiconducting polymers that can facilitate ion penetration, and operate in accumulation mode are much desired in bioelectronics. Glycol side chains have proven to be an efficient method to increase bulk electrochemical doping and optimize aqueous swelling. One early polymer which exemplifies these design approaches was p(g2T-TT), employing a bithiophene-co-thienothiophene backbone with glycol side chains in the 3,3' positions of the bithiophene repeat unit. In this paper, the analogous regioisomeric polymer, namely pgBTTT, was synthesized by relocating the glycol side chains position on the bithiophene unit of p(g2T-TT) from the 3,3' to the 4,4' positions and compared with the original p(g2T-TT). By changing the regio-positioning of the side chains, the planarizing effects of the S-O interactions were redistributed along the backbone, and the influence on the polymer's microstructure organization was investigated using grazing-incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering (GIWAXS) measurements. The newly designed pgBTTT exhibited lower backbone disorder, closer π-stacking, and higher scattering intensity in both the in-plane and out-of-plane GIWAXS measurements. The effect of the improved planarity of pgBTTT manifested as higher hole mobility (μ) of 3.44 ± 0.13 cm2 V-1 s-1. Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) was in agreement with the GIWAXS measurements and demonstrated, for the first time, that glycol side chains can also facilitate intermolecular interdigitation analogous to that of pBTTT. Electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation of energy (eQCM-D) measurements revealed that pgBTTT maintains a more rigid structure than p(g2T-TT) during doping, minimizing molecular packing disruption and maintaining higher hole mobility in operation mode.
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- Rawad K Hallani
- Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Organic Bioelectronics Laboratory, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, U.K
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- Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Organic Bioelectronics Laboratory, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.,Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, United States
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- Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.,Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, U.K
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Chen X, Marks A, Paulsen BD, Wu R, Rashid RB, Chen H, Alsufyani M, Rivnay J, McCulloch I. n
‐Type Rigid Semiconducting Polymers Bearing Oligo(Ethylene Glycol) Side Chains for High‐Performance Organic Electrochemical Transistors. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202013998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Xingxing Chen
- Department of Physical Science and Engineering Division King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Plastic Electronics Imperial College London London W12 0BZ UK
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Rd Evanston IL 60208 USA
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- Department of Chemistry Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Rd Evanston IL 60208 USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Rd Evanston IL 60208 USA
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- Department of Physical Science and Engineering Division King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Physical Science and Engineering Division King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Rd Evanston IL 60208 USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute Northwestern University Chicago IL 60611 USA
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- Department of Physical Science and Engineering Division King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Plastic Electronics Imperial College London London W12 0BZ UK
- Department of Chemistry Chemistry Research Laboratory University of Oxford Oxford OX1 3TA UK
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Chen X, Marks A, Paulsen BD, Wu R, Rashid RB, Chen H, Alsufyani M, Rivnay J, McCulloch I. n-Type Rigid Semiconducting Polymers Bearing Oligo(Ethylene Glycol) Side Chains for High-Performance Organic Electrochemical Transistors. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:9368-9373. [PMID: 33368944 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202013998] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2020] [Revised: 12/14/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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N-type conjugated polymers as the semiconducting component of organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) are still undeveloped with respect to their p-type counterparts. Herein, we report two rigid n-type conjugated polymers bearing oligo(ethylene glycol) (OEG) side chains, PgNaN and PgNgN, which demonstrated an essentially torsion-free π-conjugated backbone. The planarity and electron-deficient rigid structures enable the resulting polymers to achieve high electron mobility in an OECT device of up to the 10-3 cm2 V-1 s-1 range, with a deep-lying LUMO energy level lower than -4.0 eV. Prominently, the polymers exhibited a high device performance with a maximum dimensionally normalized transconductance of 0.212 S cm-1 and the product of charge-carrier mobility μ and volumetric capacitance C* of 0.662±0.113 F cm-1 V-1 s-1 , which are among the highest in n-type conjugated polymers reported to date. Moreover, the polymers are synthesized via a metal-free aldol-condensation polymerization, which is beneficial to their application in bioelectronics.
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- Xingxing Chen
- Department of Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial College London, London, W12 0BZ, UK
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA.,Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- Department of Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia.,Department of Chemistry and Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial College London, London, W12 0BZ, UK.,Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3TA, UK
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Kim Y, Noh H, Paulsen BD, Kim J, Jo IY, Ahn H, Rivnay J, Yoon MH. Strain-Engineering Induced Anisotropic Crystallite Orientation and Maximized Carrier Mobility for High-Performance Microfiber-Based Organic Bioelectronic Devices. Adv Mater 2021; 33:e2007550. [PMID: 33538016 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202007550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2020] [Revised: 12/20/2020] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Despite the importance of carrier mobility, recent research efforts have been mainly focused on the improvement of volumetric capacitance in order to maximize the figure-of-merit, μC* (product of carrier mobility and volumetric capacitance), for high-performance organic electrochemical transistors. Herein, high-performance microfiber-based organic electrochemical transistors with unprecedentedly large μC* using highly ordered crystalline poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) microfibers with very high carrier mobilities are reported. The strain engineering via uniaxial tension is employed in combination with solvent-mediated crystallization in the course of drying coagulated fibers, resulting in the permanent preferential alignment of crystalline PEDOT:PSS domains along the fiber direction, which is verified by atomic force microscopy and transmission wide-angle X-ray scattering. The resultant strain-engineered microfibers exhibit very high carrier mobility (12.9 cm2 V-1 s-1 ) without the trade-off in volumetric capacitance (122 F cm-3 ) and hole density (5.8 × 1020 cm-3 ). Such advantageous electrical and electrochemical characteristics offer the benchmark parameter of μC* over ≈1500 F cm-1 V-1 s-1 , which is the highest metric ever reported in the literature and can be beneficial for realizing a new class of substrate-free fibrillar and/or textile bioelectronics in the configuration of electrochemical transistors and/or electrochemical ion pumps.
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- Youngseok Kim
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Industrial Technology Convergence Center, Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, POSTECH, Pohang, Gyeongbuk, 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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Moser M, Savva A, Thorley K, Paulsen BD, Hidalgo TC, Ohayon D, Chen H, Giovannitti A, Marks A, Gasparini N, Wadsworth A, Rivnay J, Inal S, McCulloch I. Polaron Delocalization in Donor–Acceptor Polymers and its Impact on Organic Electrochemical Transistor Performance. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202014078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division Thuwal 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
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- University of Kentucky Department of Chemistry Lexington KY 40506-0055 USA
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- Northwestern University Department of Biomedical Engineering Chicago IL 60208 USA
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division Thuwal 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division Thuwal 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Physical Science and Engineering Division Thuwal 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
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- Imperial College London Department of Chemistry and Center for Plastic Electronics London W12 0BZ UK
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- Imperial College London Department of Chemistry and Center for Plastic Electronics London W12 0BZ UK
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- Northwestern University Department of Biomedical Engineering Chicago IL 60208 USA
- Northwestern University Simpson Querrey Institute Chicago IL 60611 USA
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division Thuwal 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
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- University of Oxford Department of Chemistry Oxford OX1 3TA UK
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Physical Science and Engineering Division Thuwal 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
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Moser M, Savva A, Thorley K, Paulsen BD, Hidalgo TC, Ohayon D, Chen H, Giovannitti A, Marks A, Gasparini N, Wadsworth A, Rivnay J, Inal S, McCulloch I. Polaron Delocalization in Donor-Acceptor Polymers and its Impact on Organic Electrochemical Transistor Performance. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:7777-7785. [PMID: 33259685 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202014078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2020] [Revised: 11/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Donor-acceptor (D-A) polymers are promising materials for organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs), as they minimize detrimental faradaic side-reactions during OECT operation, yet their steady-state OECT performance still lags far behind their all-donor counterparts. We report three D-A polymers based on the diketopyrrolopyrrole unit that afford OECT performances similar to those of all-donor polymers, hence representing a significant improvement to the previously developed D-A copolymers. In addition to improved OECT performance, DFT simulations of the polymers and their respective hole polarons also reveal a positive correlation between hole polaron delocalization and steady-state OECT performance, providing new insights into the design of OECT materials. Importantly, we demonstrate how polaron delocalization can be tuned directly at the molecular level by selection of the building blocks comprising the polymers' conjugated backbone, thus paving the way for the development of even higher performing OECT polymers.
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- Maximilian Moser
- University of Oxford, Department of Chemistry, Oxford, OX1 3TA, UK
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- University of Kentucky, Department of Chemistry, Lexington, KY, 40506-0055, USA
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- Northwestern University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chicago, IL, 60208, USA
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Physical Science and Engineering Division, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Stanford University, TomKatCenter for Sustainable Energy, Stanford, CA, 94305-4125, USA
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- Imperial College London, Department of Chemistry and Center for Plastic Electronics, London, W12 0BZ, UK
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- Imperial College London, Department of Chemistry and Center for Plastic Electronics, London, W12 0BZ, UK
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- University of Oxford, Department of Chemistry, Oxford, OX1 3TA, UK
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- Northwestern University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chicago, IL, 60208, USA.,Northwestern University, Simpson Querrey Institute, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- University of Oxford, Department of Chemistry, Oxford, OX1 3TA, UK.,King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Physical Science and Engineering Division, Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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Ohayon D, Savva A, Du W, Paulsen BD, Uguz I, Ashraf RS, Rivnay J, McCulloch I, Inal S. Influence of Side Chains on the n-Type Organic Electrochemical Transistor Performance. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2021; 13:4253-4266. [PMID: 33439636 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c18599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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n-Type (electron transporting) polymers can make suitable interfaces to transduce biological events that involve the generation of electrons. However, n-type polymers that are stable when electrochemically doped in aqueous media are relatively scarce, and the performance of the existing ones lags behind their p-type (hole conducting) counterparts. Here, we report a new family of donor-acceptor-type polymers based on a naphthalene-1,4,5,8-tetracarboxylic-diimide-bi-thiophene (NDI-T2) backbone where the NDI unit always bears an ethylene glycol (EG) side chain. We study how small variations in the side chains tethered to the acceptor as well as the donor unit affect the performance of the polymer films in the state-of-the-art bioelectronic device, the organic electrochemical transistor (OECT). First, we find that substitution of the T2 core with an electron-withdrawing group (i.e., methoxy) or an EG side chain leads to ambipolar charge transport properties and causes significant changes in film microstructure, which overall impairs the n-type OECT performance. We thus show that the best n-type OECT performer is the polymer that has no substitution on the T2 unit. Next, we evaluate the distance of the oxygen from the NDI unit as a design parameter by varying the length of the carbon spacer placed between the EG unit and the backbone. We find that the distance of the EG from the backbone affects the film order and crystallinity, and thus, the electron mobility. Consequently, our work reports the best-performing NDI-T2-based n-type OECT material to date, i.e., the polymer without the T2 substitution and bearing a six-carbon spacer between the EG and the NDI units. Our work provides new guidelines for the side-chain engineering of n-type polymers for OECTs and insights on the structure-performance relationships for mixed ionic-electronic conductors, crucial for devices where the film operates at the aqueous electrolyte interface.
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- David Ohayon
- Organic Bioelectronics Laboratory, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Organic Bioelectronics Laboratory, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States
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- KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, United States
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- KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Physical Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3TA, United Kingdom
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- Organic Bioelectronics Laboratory, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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Zokaei S, Kroon R, Gladisch J, Paulsen BD, Sohn W, Hofmann AI, Persson G, Stamm A, Syrén P, Olsson E, Rivnay J, Stavrinidou E, Lund A, Müller C. Toughening of a Soft Polar Polythiophene through Copolymerization with Hard Urethane Segments. Adv Sci (Weinh) 2021; 8:2002778. [PMID: 33511014 PMCID: PMC7816697 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202002778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2020] [Revised: 10/01/2020] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Polar polythiophenes with oligoethylene glycol side chains are exceedingly soft materials. A low glass transition temperature and low degree of crystallinity prevents their use as a bulk material. The synthesis of a copolymer comprising 1) soft polythiophene blocks with tetraethylene glycol side chains, and 2) hard urethane segments is reported. The molecular design is contrary to that of other semiconductor-insulator copolymers, which typically combine a soft nonconjugated spacer with hard conjugated segments. Copolymerization of polar polythiophenes and urethane segments results in a ductile material that can be used as a free-standing solid. The copolymer displays a storage modulus of 25 MPa at room temperature, elongation at break of 95%, and a reduced degree of swelling due to hydrogen bonding. Both chemical doping and electrochemical oxidation reveal that the introduction of urethane segments does not unduly reduce the hole charge-carrier mobility and ability to take up charge. Further, stable operation is observed when the copolymer is used as the active layer of organic electrochemical transistors.
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- Sepideh Zokaei
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringChalmers University of TechnologyGöteborg41296Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringChalmers University of TechnologyGöteborg41296Sweden
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- Laboratory of Organic ElectronicsDepartment of Science and TechnologyLinköping UniversityNorrköping60174Sweden
- Wallenberg Wood Science CenterDepartment of Science and TechnologyLinköping UniversityNorrköping60174Sweden
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- Department of Biomedical EngineeringNorthwestern UniversityEvanstonIL60208USA
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- Department of Biomedical EngineeringNorthwestern UniversityEvanstonIL60208USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringChalmers University of TechnologyGöteborg41296Sweden
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- Department of PhysicsChalmers University of TechnologyGöteborg41296Sweden
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- Department of Fibre and Polymer TechnologyKTH Royal Institute of TechnologyStockholm11428Sweden
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- Department of Fibre and Polymer TechnologyKTH Royal Institute of TechnologyStockholm11428Sweden
- Wallenberg Wood Science CenterKTH Royal Institute of TechnologyStockholm11428Sweden
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- Department of PhysicsChalmers University of TechnologyGöteborg41296Sweden
- Wallenberg Wood Science CenterChalmers University of TechnologyGöteborg41296Sweden
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- Department of Biomedical EngineeringNorthwestern UniversityEvanstonIL60208USA
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- Laboratory of Organic ElectronicsDepartment of Science and TechnologyLinköping UniversityNorrköping60174Sweden
- Wallenberg Wood Science CenterDepartment of Science and TechnologyLinköping UniversityNorrköping60174Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringChalmers University of TechnologyGöteborg41296Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringChalmers University of TechnologyGöteborg41296Sweden
- Wallenberg Wood Science CenterChalmers University of TechnologyGöteborg41296Sweden
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Paulsen BD, Wu R, Takacs CJ, Steinrück HG, Strzalka J, Zhang Q, Toney MF, Rivnay J. Time-Resolved Structural Kinetics of an Organic Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductor. Adv Mater 2020; 32:e2003404. [PMID: 32864811 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202003404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2020] [Revised: 07/07/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The structure and packing of organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors have an especially significant effect on transport properties. In operating devices, this structure is not fixed but is responsive to changes in electrochemical potential, ion intercalation, and solvent swelling. Toward this end, the steady-state and transient structure of the model organic mixed conductor, poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS), is characterized using multimodal time-resolved operando techniques. Steady-state operando X-ray scattering reveals a doping-induced lamellar expansion of 1.6 Å followed by 0.4 Å relaxation at high doping levels. Time-resolved operando X-ray scattering reveals asymmetric rates of lamellar structural change during doping and dedoping that do not directly depend on potential or charging transients. Time-resolved spectroscopy establishes a link between structural transients and the complex kinetics of electronic charge carrier subpopulations, in particular the polaron-bipolaron equilibrium. These findings provide insight into the factors limiting the response time of organic mixed-conductor-based devices, and present the first real-time observation of the structural changes during doping and dedoping of a conjugated polymer system via X-ray scattering.
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- Bryan D Paulsen
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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- Department Chemie, Universität Paderborn, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, 33098, Germany
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- X-Ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- X-Ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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Savagian LR, Österholm AM, Ponder JF, Barth KJ, Rivnay J, Reynolds JR. Balancing Charge Storage and Mobility in an Oligo(Ether) Functionalized Dioxythiophene Copolymer for Organic- and Aqueous- Based Electrochemical Devices and Transistors. Adv Mater 2020; 32:e2004250. [PMID: 33448510 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202004250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Giovannitti A, Rashid RB, Thiburce Q, Paulsen BD, Cendra C, Thorley K, Moia D, Mefford JT, Hanifi D, Weiyuan D, Moser M, Salleo A, Nelson J, McCulloch I, Rivnay J. Energetic Control of Redox-Active Polymers toward Safe Organic Bioelectronic Materials. Adv Mater 2020; 32:e1908047. [PMID: 32125736 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201908047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2019] [Revised: 02/02/2020] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Avoiding faradaic side reactions during the operation of electrochemical devices is important to enhance the device stability, to achieve low power consumption, and to prevent the formation of reactive side-products. This is particularly important for bioelectronic devices, which are designed to operate in biological systems. While redox-active materials based on conducting and semiconducting polymers represent an exciting class of materials for bioelectronic devices, they are susceptible to electrochemical side-reactions with molecular oxygen during device operation. Here, electrochemical side reactions with molecular oxygen are shown to occur during organic electrochemical transistor (OECT) operation using high-performance, state-of-the-art OECT materials. Depending on the choice of the active material, such reactions yield hydrogen peroxide (H2 O2 ), a reactive side-product, which may be harmful to the local biological environment and may also accelerate device degradation. A design strategy is reported for the development of redox-active organic semiconductors based on donor-acceptor copolymers that prevents the formation of H2 O2 during device operation. This study elucidates the previously overlooked side-reactions between redox-active conjugated polymers and molecular oxygen in electrochemical devices for bioelectronics, which is critical for the operation of electrolyte-gated devices in application-relevant environments.
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- Alexander Giovannitti
- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Physical Sciences and Engineering Division, KAUST Solar Center (KSC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
- Physical Sciences and Engineering Division, KAUST Solar Center (KSC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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dePolo GE, Schafer E, Sadman K, Rivnay J, Shull KR. Sample Preparation in Quartz Crystal Microbalance Measurements of Protein Adsorption and Polymer Mechanics. J Vis Exp 2020. [PMID: 32065145 DOI: 10.3791/60584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022] Open
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In this study, we present various examples of how thin film preparation for quartz crystal microbalance experiments informs the appropriate modeling of the data and determines which properties of the film can be quantified. The quartz crystal microbalance offers a uniquely sensitive platform for measuring fine changes in mass and/or mechanical properties of an applied film by observing the changes in mechanical resonance of a quartz crystal oscillating at high frequency. The advantages of this approach include its experimental versatility, ability to study changes in properties over a wide range of experimental time lengths, and the use of small sample sizes. We demonstrate that, based on the thickness and shear modulus of the layer deposited on the sensor, we can acquire different information from the material. Here, this concept is specifically exploited to display experimental parameters resulting in mass and viscoelastic calculations of adsorbed collagen on gold and polyelectrolyte complexes during swelling as a function of salt concentration.
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- Gwen E dePolo
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University;
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Paulsen BD, Tybrandt K, Stavrinidou E, Rivnay J. Organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors. Nat Mater 2020; 19:13-26. [PMID: 31427743 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-019-0435-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 230] [Impact Index Per Article: 57.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2019] [Accepted: 06/14/2019] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Materials that efficiently transport and couple ionic and electronic charge are key to advancing a host of technological developments for next-generation bioelectronic, optoelectronic and energy storage devices. Here we highlight key progress in the design and study of organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors (OMIECs), a diverse family of soft synthetically tunable mixed conductors. Across applications, the same interrelated fundamental physical processes dictate OMIEC properties and determine device performance. Owing to ionic and electronic interactions and coupled transport properties, OMIECs demand special understanding beyond knowledge derived from the study of organic thin films and membranes meant to support either electronic or ionic processes only. We address seemingly conflicting views and terminology regarding charging processes in these materials, and highlight recent approaches that extend fundamental understanding and contribute to the advancement of materials. Further progress is predicated on multimodal and multi-scale approaches to overcome lingering barriers to OMIEC design and implementation.
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- Bryan D Paulsen
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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- Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden
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- Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.
- Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
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Parr ZS, Halaksa R, Finn PA, Rashid RB, Kovalenko A, Weiter M, Rivnay J, Krajčovič J, Nielsen CB. Glycolated Thiophene‐Tetrafluorophenylene Copolymers for Bioelectronic Applications: Synthesis by Direct Heteroarylation Polymerisation. Chempluschem 2019; 84:1384-1390. [DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201900254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2019] [Revised: 06/14/2019] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Zachary S. Parr
- Materials Research Institute and School of Biological and Chemical SciencesQueen Mary University of London Mile End Road London, E1 4NS United Kingdom
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- Materials Research Institute and School of Biological and Chemical SciencesQueen Mary University of London Mile End Road London, E1 4NS United Kingdom
- Materials Research Centre Faculty of ChemistryBrno University of Technology Purkyňova 118 612 00 Brno Czech Republic
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- Materials Research Institute and School of Biological and Chemical SciencesQueen Mary University of London Mile End Road London, E1 4NS United Kingdom
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- Department of Biomedical EngineeringNorthwestern University Evanston IL 60208 USA
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- Materials Research Centre Faculty of ChemistryBrno University of Technology Purkyňova 118 612 00 Brno Czech Republic
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- Materials Research Centre Faculty of ChemistryBrno University of Technology Purkyňova 118 612 00 Brno Czech Republic
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- Department of Biomedical EngineeringNorthwestern University Evanston IL 60208 USA
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- Materials Research Centre Faculty of ChemistryBrno University of Technology Purkyňova 118 612 00 Brno Czech Republic
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- Materials Research Institute and School of Biological and Chemical SciencesQueen Mary University of London Mile End Road London, E1 4NS United Kingdom
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Savagian LR, Österholm AM, Ponder JF, Barth KJ, Rivnay J, Reynolds JR. Balancing Charge Storage and Mobility in an Oligo(Ether) Functionalized Dioxythiophene Copolymer for Organic- and Aqueous- Based Electrochemical Devices and Transistors. Adv Mater 2018; 30:e1804647. [PMID: 30368946 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201804647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2018] [Revised: 09/21/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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This work presents a soluble oligo(ether)-functionalized propylenedioxythiophene (ProDOT)-based copolymer as a versatile platform for a range of high-performance electrochemical devices, including organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs), electrochromic displays, and energy-storage devices. This polymer exhibits dual electroactivity in both aqueous and organic electrolyte systems, redox stability for thousands of redox cycles, and charge-storage capacity exceeding 80 F g-1 . As an electrochrome, this material undergoes full colored-to-colorless optical transitions on rapid time scales (<2 s) and impressive electrochromic contrast (Δ%T > 70%). Incorporation of the polymer into OECTs yields accumulation-mode devices with an ION/OFF current ratio of 105 , high transconductance without post-treatments, as well as competitive hole mobility and volumetric capacitance, making it an attractive candidate for biosensing applications. In addition to being the first ProDOT-based OECT active material reported to date, this is also the first reported OECT material synthesized via direct(hetero)arylation polymerization, which is a highly favorable polymerization method when compared to commonly used Stille cross-coupling. This work provides a demonstration of how a single ProDOT-based polymer, prepared using benign polymerization chemistry and functionalized with highly polar side chains, can be used to access a range of highly desirable properties and performance metrics relevant to electrochemical, optical, and bioelectronic applications.
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- Lisa R Savagian
- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Tech Polymer Network, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Tech Polymer Network, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Tech Polymer Network, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Tech Polymer Network, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA
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Shirinskaya A, Horowitz G, Rivnay J, Malliaras GG, Bonnassieux Y. Numerical Modeling of an Organic Electrochemical Transistor. Biosensors (Basel) 2018; 8:bios8040103. [PMID: 30384434 PMCID: PMC6316735 DOI: 10.3390/bios8040103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2018] [Revised: 10/21/2018] [Accepted: 10/26/2018] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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We develop a numerical model for the current-voltage characteristics of organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) based on steady-state Poisson’s, Nernst’s and Nernst–Planck’s equations. The model starts with the doping–dedoping process depicted as a moving front, when the process at the electrolyte–polymer interface and gradually moves across the film. When the polymer reaches its final state, the electrical potential and charge density profiles largely depend on the way the cations behave during the process. One case is when cations are trapped at the polymer site where dedoping occurs. In this case, the moving front stops at a point that depends on the applied voltage; the higher the voltage, the closer the stopping point to the source electrode. Alternatively, when the cations are assumed to move freely in the polymer, the moving front eventually reaches the source electrode in all cases. In this second case, cations tend to accumulate near the source electrode, and most of the polymer is uniformly doped. The variation of the conductivity of the polymer film is then calculated by integrating the density of holes all over the film. Output and transfer curves of the OECT are obtained by integrating the gate voltage-dependent conductivity from source to drain.
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- Anna Shirinskaya
- Laboratory of Physics of Interfaces and Thin Films (LPICM), Ecole Polytechnique, Route de Saclay, 91128 Palaiseau CEDEX, France.
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- Laboratory of Physics of Interfaces and Thin Films (LPICM), Ecole Polytechnique, Route de Saclay, 91128 Palaiseau CEDEX, France.
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- Department of Bioelectronics, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines CMP-EMSE MOC, 13541 Gardanne, France.
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208-3109, USA.
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- Department of Bioelectronics, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines CMP-EMSE MOC, 13541 Gardanne, France.
- Electrical Engineering Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, 9 JJ Thomson Ave, Cambridge CB3 0FA, UK.
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- Laboratory of Physics of Interfaces and Thin Films (LPICM), Ecole Polytechnique, Route de Saclay, 91128 Palaiseau CEDEX, France.
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Kim SM, Kim CH, Kim Y, Kim N, Lee WJ, Lee EH, Kim D, Park S, Lee K, Rivnay J, Yoon MH. Influence of PEDOT:PSS crystallinity and composition on electrochemical transistor performance and long-term stability. Nat Commun 2018; 9:3858. [PMID: 30242224 PMCID: PMC6155079 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06084-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2018] [Accepted: 08/09/2018] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Owing to the mixed electron/hole and ion transport in the aqueous environment, poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate)-based organic electrochemical transistor has been regarded as one of the most promising device platforms for bioelectronics. Nonetheless, there exist very few in-depth studies on how intrinsic channel material properties affect their performance and long-term stability in aqueous environments. Herein, we investigated the correlation among film microstructural crystallinity/composition, device performance, and aqueous stability in poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate) films. The highly organized anisotropic ordering in crystallized conducting polymer films led to remarkable device characteristics such as large transconductance (∼20 mS), extraordinary volumetric capacitance (113 F·cm-3), and unprecedentedly high [μC*] value (∼490 F·cm-1V-1s-1). Simultaneously, minimized poly(styrenesulfonate) residues in the crystallized film substantially afforded marginal film swelling and robust operational stability even after >20-day water immersion, >2000-time repeated on-off switching, or high-temperature/pressure sterilization. We expect that the present study will contribute to the development of long-term stable implantable bioelectronics for neural recording/stimulation.
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- Seong-Min Kim
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
- Research Institute for Solar and Sustainable Energies, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
- Department of Electronic Engineering, Gachon University, Seongnam, 13120, Republic of Korea
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Heeger Center for Advanced Materials, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
- Laboratory of Organic Electronics, ITN, Linköping University, Norrköping, SE-601 74, Sweden
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
- Research Institute for Solar and Sustainable Energies, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
- Heeger Center for Advanced Materials, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 61005, Republic of Korea.
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Venkatraman V, Friedlein JT, Giovannitti A, Maria IP, McCulloch I, McLeod RR, Rivnay J. Subthreshold Operation of Organic Electrochemical Transistors for Biosignal Amplification. Adv Sci (Weinh) 2018; 5:1800453. [PMID: 30128254 PMCID: PMC6097142 DOI: 10.1002/advs.201800453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2018] [Revised: 05/22/2018] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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With a host of new materials being investigated as active layers in organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs), several advantageous characteristics can be utilized to improve transduction and circuit level performance for biosensing applications. Here, the subthreshold region of operation of one recently reported high performing OECT material, poly(2-(3,3'-bis(2-(2-(2-methoxyethoxy)ethoxy)ethoxy)-[2,2'-bithiophen]-5-yl)thieno[3,2-b]thiophene), p(g2T-TT) is investigated. The material's high subthreshold slope (SS) is exploited for high voltage gain and low power consumption. An ≈5× improvement in voltage gain (AV) for devices engineered for equal output current and 370× lower power consumption in the subthreshold region, in comparison to operation in the higher transconductance (gm), superthreshold region usually reported in the literature, are reported. Electrophysiological sensing is demonstrated using the subthreshold regime of p(g2T-TT) devices and it is suggested that operation in this regime enables low power, enhanced sensing for a broad range of bioelectronic applications. Finally, the accessibility of the subthreshold regime of p(g2T-TT) is evaluated in comparison with the prototypical poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS), and the role of material design in achieving favorable properties for subthreshold operation is discussed.
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- Vishak Venkatraman
- Department of Biomedical EngineeringNorthwestern University2145 Sheridan RoadEvanstonIL60208USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnologyNorthwestern UniversityChicagoIL60611USA
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- Department of ElectricalComputer, and Energy EngineeringUniversity of ColoradoBoulderCO80309‐0425USA
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- Department of ChemistryImperial College LondonLondonSW7 2AZUK
- Physical Sciences and Engineering DivisionKAUST Solar Center (KSC)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)Thuwal23955‐6900Saudi Arabia
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- Department of ElectricalComputer, and Energy EngineeringUniversity of ColoradoBoulderCO80309‐0425USA
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- Department of Biomedical EngineeringNorthwestern University2145 Sheridan RoadEvanstonIL60208USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnologyNorthwestern UniversityChicagoIL60611USA
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Won SM, Song E, Zhao J, Li J, Rivnay J, Rogers JA. Recent Advances in Materials, Devices, and Systems for Neural Interfaces. Adv Mater 2018; 30:e1800534. [PMID: 29855089 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201800534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2018] [Revised: 02/28/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Technologies capable of establishing intimate, long-lived optical/electrical interfaces to neural systems will play critical roles in neuroscience research and in the development of nonpharmacological treatments for neurological disorders. The development of high-density interfaces to 3D populations of neurons across entire tissue systems in living animals, including human subjects, represents a grand challenge for the field, where advanced biocompatible materials and engineered structures for electrodes and light emitters will be essential. This review summarizes recent progress in these directions, with an emphasis on the most promising demonstrated concepts, materials, devices, and systems. The article begins with an overview of electrode materials with enhanced electrical and/or mechanical performance, in forms ranging from planar films, to micro/nanostructured surfaces, to 3D porous frameworks and soft composites. Subsequent sections highlight integration with active materials and components for multiplexed addressing, local amplification, wireless data transmission, and power harvesting, with multimodal operation in soft, shape-conformal systems. These advances establish the foundations for scalable architectures in optical/electrical neural interfaces of the future, where a blurring of the lines between biotic and abiotic systems will catalyze profound progress in neuroscience research and in human health/well-being.
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- Sang Min Won
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Simpson Querrey Institute for Nanobiotechnology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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- Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Neurological Surgery, Simpson Querrey Institute for Nano/biotechnology, McCormick School of Engineering and Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA
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The emerging field of organic bioelectronics bridges the electronic world of organic-semiconductor-based devices with the soft, predominantly ionic world of biology. This crosstalk can occur in both directions. For example, a biochemical reaction may change the doping state of an organic material, generating an electronic readout. Conversely, an electronic signal from a device may stimulate a biological event. Cutting-edge research in this field results in the development of a broad variety of meaningful applications, from biosensors and drug delivery systems to health monitoring devices and brain-machine interfaces. Conjugated polymers share similarities in chemical "nature" with biological molecules and can be engineered on various forms, including hydrogels that have Young's moduli similar to those of soft tissues and are ionically conducting. The structure of organic materials can be tuned through synthetic chemistry, and their biological properties can be controlled using a variety of functionalization strategies. Finally, organic electronic materials can be integrated with a variety of mechanical supports, giving rise to devices with form factors that enable integration with biological systems. While these developments are innovative and promising, it is important to note that the field is still in its infancy, with many unknowns and immense scope for exploration and highly collaborative research. The first part of this Account details the unique properties that render conjugated polymers excellent biointerfacing materials. We then offer an overview of the most common conjugated polymers that have been used as active layers in various organic bioelectronics devices, highlighting the importance of developing new materials. These materials are the most popular ethylenedioxythiophene derivatives as well as conjugated polyelectrolytes and ion-free organic semiconductors functionalized for the biological interface. We then discuss several applications and operation principles of state-of-the-art bioelectronics devices. These devices include electrodes applied to sense/trigger electrophysiological activity of cells as well as electrolyte-gated field-effect and electrochemical transistors used for sensing of biochemical markers. Another prime application example of conjugated polymers is cell actuators. External modulation of the redox state of the underlying conjugated polymer films controls the adhesion behavior and viability of cells. These smart surfaces can be also designed in the form of three-dimensional architectures because of the processability of conjugated polymers. As such, cell-loaded scaffolds based on electroactive polymers enable integrated sensing or stimulation within the engineered tissue itself. A last application example is organic neuromorphic devices, an alternative computing architecture that takes inspiration from biology and, in particular, from the way the brain works. Leveraging ion redistribution inside a conjugated polymer upon application of an electrical field and its coupling with electronic charges, conjugated polymers can be engineered to act as artificial neurons or synapses with complex, history-dependent behavior. We conclude this Account by highlighting main factors that need to be considered for the design of a conjugated polymer for applications in bioelectronics-although there can be various figures of merit given the broad range of applications, as emphasized in this Account.
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- Sahika Inal
- Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
- Simpson Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, U.K
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- Electrical Engineering Division, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, U.K
- Physical Sciences and Engineering Division, KAUST Solar Center, KAUST, Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Pappa AM, Ohayon D, Giovannitti A, Maria IP, Savva A, Uguz I, Rivnay J, McCulloch I, Owens RM, Inal S. Direct metabolite detection with an n-type accumulation mode organic electrochemical transistor. Sci Adv 2018; 4:eaat0911. [PMID: 29942860 PMCID: PMC6014717 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aat0911] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2018] [Accepted: 05/08/2018] [Indexed: 05/18/2023]
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The inherent specificity and electrochemical reversibility of enzymes poise them as the biorecognition element of choice for a wide range of metabolites. To use enzymes efficiently in biosensors, the redox centers of the protein should have good electrical communication with the transducing electrode, which requires either the use of mediators or tedious biofunctionalization approaches. We report an all-polymer micrometer-scale transistor platform for the detection of lactate, a significant metabolite in cellular metabolic pathways associated with critical health care conditions. The device embodies a new concept in metabolite sensing where we take advantage of the ion-to-electron transducing qualities of an electron-transporting (n-type) organic semiconductor and the inherent amplification properties of an ion-to-electron converting device, the organic electrochemical transistor. The n-type polymer incorporates hydrophilic side chains to enhance ion transport/injection, as well as to facilitate enzyme conjugation. The material is capable of accepting electrons of the enzymatic reaction and acts as a series of redox centers capable of switching between the neutral and reduced state. The result is a fast, selective, and sensitive metabolite sensor. The advantage of this device compared to traditional amperometric sensors is the amplification of the input signal endowed by the electrochemical transistor circuit and the design simplicity obviating the need for a reference electrode. The combination of redox enzymes and electron-transporting polymers will open up an avenue not only for the field of biosensors but also for the development of enzyme-based electrocatalytic energy generation/storage devices.
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- Anna Maria Pappa
- Department of Bioelectronics, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Centre Microélectronique de Provence, Gardanne 13541, France
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS, UK
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- Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Bioelectronics, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Centre Microélectronique de Provence, Gardanne 13541, France
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
- Simpson Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
- Physical Science and Engineering Division, KAUST, Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Bioelectronics, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines, Centre Microélectronique de Provence, Gardanne 13541, France
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS, UK
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- Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Giovannitti A, Maria IP, Hanifi D, Donahue MJ, Bryant D, Barth KJ, Makdah BE, Savva A, Moia D, Zetek M, Barnes PR, Reid OG, Inal S, Rumbles G, Malliaras GG, Nelson J, Rivnay J, McCulloch I. The Role of the Side Chain on the Performance of N-type Conjugated Polymers in Aqueous Electrolytes. Chem Mater 2018; 30:2945-2953. [PMID: 29780208 PMCID: PMC5953566 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b00321] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2018] [Revised: 04/12/2018] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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We report a design strategy that allows the preparation of solution processable n-type materials from low boiling point solvents for organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs). The polymer backbone is based on NDI-T2 copolymers where a branched alkyl side chain is gradually exchanged for a linear ethylene glycol-based side chain. A series of random copolymers was prepared with glycol side chain percentages of 0, 10, 25, 50, 75, 90, and 100 with respect to the alkyl side chains. These were characterized to study the influence of the polar side chains on interaction with aqueous electrolytes, their electrochemical redox reactions, and performance in OECTs when operated in aqueous electrolytes. We observed that glycol side chain percentages of >50% are required to achieve volumetric charging, while lower glycol chain percentages show a mixed operation with high required voltages to allow for bulk charging of the organic semiconductor. A strong dependence of the electron mobility on the fraction of glycol chains was found for copolymers based on NDI-T2, with a significant drop as alkyl side chains are replaced by glycol side chains.
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- Alexander Giovannitti
- Department
of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
- Department
of Physics and Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
- E-mail: (A.G.)
| | - Iuliana P. Maria
- Department
of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
| | - David Hanifi
- Department
of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, United States
| | - Mary J. Donahue
- Department
of Bioelectronics, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines, CMP-EMSE, MOC Gardanne 13541, France
| | - Daniel Bryant
- Physical
Sciences and Engineering Division, KAUST Solar Center (KSC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
(KAUST), KSC Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
| | - Katrina J. Barth
- Department
of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern
University, 2145 Sheridan
Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
| | - Beatrice E. Makdah
- Department
of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern
University, 2145 Sheridan
Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
| | - Achilleas Savva
- Biological
and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
| | - Davide Moia
- Department
of Physics and Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
| | - Matyáš Zetek
- Department
of Physics and Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
| | - Piers R.F. Barnes
- Department
of Physics and Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
| | - Obadiah G. Reid
- Renewable
and Sustainable Energy Institute, University
of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
- Chemistry
and Nanoscience Center, National Renewable
Energy Laboratory, 15013
Denver West Parkway, Golden, Colorado 80401, United
States
| | - Sahika Inal
- Biological
and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
| | - Garry Rumbles
- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
- Renewable
and Sustainable Energy Institute, University
of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309, United States
- Chemistry
and Nanoscience Center, National Renewable
Energy Laboratory, 15013
Denver West Parkway, Golden, Colorado 80401, United
States
| | - George G. Malliaras
- Electrical
Engineering Division, University of Cambridge, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA, United Kingdom
| | - Jenny Nelson
- Department
of Physics and Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
| | - Jonathan Rivnay
- Department
of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern
University, 2145 Sheridan
Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
- Simpson
Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, United States
- E-mail: (J.R.)
| | - Iain McCulloch
- Department
of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
- Physical
Sciences and Engineering Division, KAUST Solar Center (KSC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
(KAUST), KSC Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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