Electrical detection of metal ions using field-effect transistors based on micropatterned reduced graphene oxide films

ACS Nano. 2011 Mar 22;5(3):1990-4. doi: 10.1021/nn103043v. Epub 2011 Feb 21.

Abstract

The electrical property of graphene is highly sensitive to its local environment, which makes graphene an ideal channel material in electronic sensors. Reduced graphene oxide (rGO) has been used as the desirable alternative to the pristine graphene due to its low-cost, solution-processable, and scalable production. In this paper, we present a field-effect transistor sensor using micropatterned, protein-functionalized rGO film as the conducting or sensing channel. Such a nanoelectronic sensor is able to detect various metal ions in real-time with high sensitivity.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Graphite / chemistry*
  • Ions / analysis
  • Macromolecular Substances / chemistry
  • Materials Testing
  • Membranes, Artificial*
  • Metals / analysis*
  • Molecular Conformation
  • Nanostructures / chemistry*
  • Nanostructures / ultrastructure
  • Oxidation-Reduction
  • Oxides / chemistry
  • Particle Size
  • Surface Properties
  • Transistors, Electronic*

Substances

  • Ions
  • Macromolecular Substances
  • Membranes, Artificial
  • Metals
  • Oxides
  • Graphite