Fully Inkjet-Printed Organic Electrochemical Transistors: A Path Toward All-Organic Electronics

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Abstract

Organic materials have the potential to be the basis for environmentally friendly, all-carbon electronics. However, most real devices require additional materials, such as metals for electrodes. Here, we present an example of all-organic devices: organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs), which are fully printed and do not use metal electrodes. We prove that these OECT devices have state-of-the-art performance and present three applications using poly(benzodifurandione) (PBFDO) for the electrodes and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) for the active material: (i) a PBFDO strain sensor made from a single material, which demonstrates real-time finger flexion detection; (ii) an OECT-based ion sensor for monitoring the concentration of sodium chloride (NaCl) in aqueous environments; and (iii) intrinsically stretchable, all-organic OECTs that can stretch up to 60% without the use of elastomeric additives or structural engineering.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article numbere01582
JournalAdvanced materials technologies
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 10 Dec 2025
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-9773-6676/work/204615984

Keywords

Keywords

  • all-organic OECT, all-organic OECTs, inkjet-printed OECT, intrinsically stretchable, metal-free OECT, oraganic electrochemical transistor