Acrylamide Hydrogel-Modified Silicon Nanowire Field-Effect Transistors for pH Sensing
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results and Discussion
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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pH Sensitivity | Nanowire Materials | Ref. | Published Journal Information |
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42.2 nA/pH | Si nanobelt | Chi-Chang et al. [35] | Sensors, 2021 |
178 mV/pH | Si nanowire | Siqi et al. [13] | Nanomaterials, 2020 |
84.8 mV/pH | EGFET | Ghoneim et al. [36] | Small Methods, 2018 |
—— | Hydrogel-Gated OFET | Laure et al. [19] | Langmuir, 2018 |
−57.66 mV/pH | ISFET | Lee et al. [37] | Sensors and Actuators, B Chemical, 2015 |
100 mV/pH | Hydrogel-Gated Si nanowire | This work | —— |
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Li, G.; Wei, Q.; Wei, S.; Zhang, J.; Jin, Q.; Wang, G.; Hu, J.; Zhu, Y.; Kong, Y.; Zhang, Q.; et al. Acrylamide Hydrogel-Modified Silicon Nanowire Field-Effect Transistors for pH Sensing. Nanomaterials 2022, 12, 2070. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12122070
Li G, Wei Q, Wei S, Zhang J, Jin Q, Wang G, Hu J, Zhu Y, Kong Y, Zhang Q, et al. Acrylamide Hydrogel-Modified Silicon Nanowire Field-Effect Transistors for pH Sensing. Nanomaterials. 2022; 12(12):2070. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12122070
Chicago/Turabian StyleLi, Gangrong, Qianhui Wei, Shuhua Wei, Jing Zhang, Qingxi Jin, Guozhi Wang, Jiawei Hu, Yan Zhu, Yun Kong, Qingzhu Zhang, and et al. 2022. "Acrylamide Hydrogel-Modified Silicon Nanowire Field-Effect Transistors for pH Sensing" Nanomaterials 12, no. 12: 2070. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12122070