We envision a radically-new science-enabled technology that rests on a completely novel material engineering approach combined with highly advanced characterization methods. We will take advantage of a unique molecular architecture strategy spatially separating ion- and electron-transport pathways to ensure volumetric ion injection and transport in order to optimize the uptake and release of ions in the transistor channel and to promote efficient, long-range, electronic charge transport so as to maximize the response of the transistors to very weak signals.

In contrast to field-effect transistors, where charge flows through a thin interfacial region, the identifying characteristic of OECTs is that polymer doping occurs over the entire volume of the channel, thereby allowing for large modulations in drain current at low-gate voltages. We will seek for organic material architectures maximizing the product of the electronic mobility and the volumetric capacitance, develop high-gain and low-power complementary circuits based on printed OECTs, and use these as amplifying transducers in the context of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) that mitigate losses in signal quality due to the dura, the skull and the scalp, thereby enabling less-invasive BCIs.

A garment that measures brain activity: proof of concept of an EEG sensor layer fully implemented with smart textiles

Sustainability considerations for organic electronic products

The Influence of Regiochemistry on the Performance of Organic Mixed Ionic and Electronic Conductors

Tunable Organic Active Neural Probe Enabling Near-Sensor Signal Processing

n-Type semiconductors for organic electrochemical transistor applications

Aqueous processing of organic semiconductors enabled by stable nanoparticles with built-in surfactants

Fully 3D-printed organic electrochemical transistors

Stable organic electrochemical neurons based on p-type and n-type ladder polymers

A Biologically Interfaced Evolvable Organic Pattern Classifier

Exploiting mixed conducting polymers in organic and bioelectronic devices

Structural and Dynamic Disorder, Not Ionic Trapping, Controls Charge Transport in Highly Doped Conducting Polymers

Ion-tunable antiambipolarity in mixed ion–electron conducting polymers enables biorealistic organic electrochemical neurons

The Critical Role of the Donor Polymer in the Stability of High-Performance Non-Fullerene Acceptor Organic Solar Cells

Organic electrochemical transistors manufactured by laser ablation and screen printing

Ambipolar blend-based organic electrochemical transistors and inverters

Doping of semicrystalline conjugated polymers: dopants within alkyl chains do it better

Multi-edge Resonant Tender X-ray Diffraction for Probing the Crystalline Packing of Conjugated Polymers

Tuning Short Contacts Between Polymer Chains To Enhance Charge Transport In Amorphous Donor-Acceptor Polymers

Dynamic self-stabilisation in the electronic and nanomechanical properties of a near-amorphous organic polymer semiconductor

Organic electrochemical neurons and synapses with ion mediated spiking

High‐Gain Logic Inverters based on Multiple Screen‐Printed Organic Electrochemical Transistors

Electrolyte-gated transistors for enhanced performance bioelectronics

Low-Power/High-Gain Flexible Complementary Circuits Based on Printed Organic Electrochemical Transistors

Synergistic Effect of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Ladder-Type Conjugated Polymers on the Performance of N-Type Organic Electrochemical Transistors

Influence of Molecular Weight on the Organic Electrochemical Transistor Performance of Ladder-Type Conjugated Polymers

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