Great start to the year: our paper on ion-selective organic electrochemical transistors (IS-OECTs) has been chosen as the back cover of Advanced Materials Technologies. Congratulations to Shishir Deb Nath, Pinok Chowdhury Manik, Mohammad Shafiqul Islam, and Prof. Mainul Hossain! 🎉📖

Paper title: An Empirical Model of Ion-Selective Organic Electrochemical Transistors

Abstract: Frequent monitoring of body fluids such as blood, sweat, saliva, and urine is essential for the early detection of various diseases. Ion-selective organic electrochemical transistors (IS-OECTs) offer a low-cost, highly sensitive, and easily fabricated platform for detecting ion concentration changes. Their inherent flexibility and biocompatibility make them well-suited for integration into wearable systems for continuous, point-of-care health monitoring. However, optimizing IS-OECT design and circuit performance requires accurate modeling of their concentration-dependent behavior, which is complicated by complex electrochemical interactions and charge transport dynamics. In this work, it introduces an empirical model that extends the Friedlein framework to incorporate ion concentration effects, enabling accurate prediction of steady-state device characteristics in the presence of both target and interfering ions. Validation of this model with IS-OECTs fabricated to detect ammonium (NH4⁺) and sodium (Na⁺) ions shows an excellent agreement with experimental measurements, underscoring its reliability for electrochemical sensing applications.

Publication:

  1. An Empirical Model of Ion-Selective Organic Electrochemical Transistors Shishir Deb Nath, Pinok Chowdhury Manik, Mohammad Shafiqul Islam, Mainul Hossain, and Yasser Khan Advanced Materials Technologies, 2025

    Frequent monitoring of body fluids such as blood, sweat, saliva, and urine is essential for the early detection of various diseases. Ion-selective organic electrochemical transistors (IS-OECTs) offer a low-cost, highly sensitive, and easily fabricated platform for detecting ion concentration changes. Their inherent flexibility and biocompatibility make them well-suited for integration into wearable systems for continuous, point-of-care health monitoring. However, optimizing IS-OECT design and circuit performance requires accurate modeling of their concentration-dependent behavior, which is complicated by complex electrochemical interactions and charge transport dynamics. In this work, it introduces an empirical model that extends the Friedlein framework to incorporate ion concentration effects, enabling accurate prediction of steady-state device characteristics in the presence of both target and interfering ions. Validation of this model with IS-OECTs fabricated to detect ammonium (NH4⁺) and sodium (Na⁺) ions shows an excellent agreement with experimental measurements, underscoring its reliability for electrochemical sensing applications.

    @article{nath2025empirical, title = {An Empirical Model of Ion-Selective Organic Electrochemical Transistors}, author = {Nath, Shishir Deb and Manik, Pinok Chowdhury and Islam, Mohammad Shafiqul and Hossain, Mainul and Khan, Yasser}, journal = {Advanced Materials Technologies}, pages = {e01217}, year = {2025}, publisher = {Wiley}, doi = {10.1002/admt.202501217}, thumbnail = {nath2025empirical.jpg}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202501217}, pdf = {nath2025empirical.pdf} }

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