Organic Semiconductors in Sensor Applications

Preface

Contents

Contributors

1 Water Soluble Poly(.uorene) Homopolymers and Copolymers for Chemical and Biological Sensors

1.1 Introduction

1.2 General Structures and Properties

1.3 Signal Transduction Mechanisms in Sensors

1.4 Chemo- and Biosensor Applications

1.5 Heterogeneous Platforms

1.6 Summary and Outlook

References

2 Polyelectrolyte-Based Fluorescent Sensors

2.1 General Introduction

2.2 Enzyme Activity Assays

2.3 Conjugated Polyelectrolyte Surface-Grafted Colloids

2.4 Summary and Conclusions

References

3 Structurally Integrated Photoluminescent Chemical and Biological Sensors: An Organic Light-Emitting Diode-Based Platform

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Single Analyte Monitoring

3.3 Advanced Sensor Arrays

3.4 Future Directions

3.5 Summary and Concluding Remarks

References

4 Lab-on-a-Chip Devices with Organic Semiconductor-Based Optical Detection

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Fabrication

4.3 Functional Optical Components

4.4 Applications

4.5 Conclusions and Outlook

References

5 Solid-State Chemosensitive Organic Devices for Vapor-Phase Detection

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Survey of State-of-the-Art Vapor-Phase Solid-State Chemosensing Organic Devices

5.3 Recent Advances

References

6 Detection of Chemical and Physical Parameters by Means of Organic Field-Effect Transistors

6.1 Introduction

6.2 An Overview of Organic Field-E.ect Sensors

6.3 (Bio)chemosensing in Solution

6.4 Strain and Pressure Sensors

6.5 Design and Technology of Organic Field-Effect Sensors

6.6 Applications for Organic Field-Effect Sensors

6.7 Conclusions

References

7 Performance Requirements and Mechanistic Analysis of Organic Transistor-Based Phosphonate Gas Sensors

7.1 Overview of Electronic Sensors for Chemical Vapors and Warfare Agents

7.2 Organic Semiconductor Transistor Sensors

7.3 Testing Environments for Prototype Sensing Elements

7.4 Electrical Test Procedures

7.5 Responses of Functionalized Organic Semiconductors to DMMP

7.6 Data Analysis

7.7 Sensing Mechanisms and OFET Models

7.8 Summary and Outlook

References

8 Electrochemical Transistors for Applications in Chemical and Biological Sensing

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Sensors Based on Electrochemical Transistors

8.3 Recent advances in Design and Fabrication of Eletrochemical Transistors

8.4 Summary and Future Directions

References

9 PEDOT:PSS-Based Electrochemical Transistors for Ion-to-Electron Transduction and Sensor Signal Amplification

9.1 The PEDOT:PSS-Based Electrochemical Organic Thin Film Transistor

9.2 The PEDOT:PSS OECT as an Ion-to-Electron Transducer

9.3 The PEDOT:PSS Electrochemical transistor in logic and amplification circuits

9.4 Outlook

References

Index