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A Water-Gated Organic Thin-Film Transistor for Glyphosate Detection: A Comparative Study with Fluorescence Sensing
Yui Sasaki1, Koichiro Asano1, Tsukuru Minamiki1
1Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8505, Japan.
Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|October 14, 2020
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Invited for the cover of this issue is the group of Tsuyoshi Minami at the University Tokyo. The image illustrates that despite being fabricated with the same polythiophene material, a water-gated organic thin-film transistor is a more sensitive device than a fluorescence sensor chip. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/chem.202003529.
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