Smart Surgical Catheter for C-Reactive Protein Sensing Based on an Imperceptible Organic Transistor.

ABSTRACT: Organic field-effect transistors (OFETs)-based sensors have a great potential to be integrated with the next generation smart surgical tools for monitoring different real-time signals during surgery. However, allowing ultraflexible OFETs to have compatibility with standard medical sterilization procedures remains challenging. A novel capsule-like OFET structure is demonstrated by utilizing the fluoropolymer CYTOP to serve both encapsulation and peeling-off enhancement purposes. By adapting a thermally stable organic semiconductor, 2,10-diphenylbis[1]benzothieno[2,3-d;2',3'-d']naphtho[2,3-b;6,7-b']dithiophene (DPh-BBTNDT), these devices show excellent stability in their electrical performance after sterilizing under boiling water and 100 °C-saturated steam for 30 min. The ultrathin thicknes

SUBMITTER: Ji X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6010781 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature