{"title":"Bioelectronic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBioelectronic devices couple ion transport in soft, wet matter to electron transport in solid-state circuits, letting researchers sense biology, drive motion, and store analog state with the same electrochemical toolkit.\u003c\/strong\u003e The disciplines collected here share a common substrate of mixed ionic-electronic conductors, functionalized electrode interfaces, and low-voltage potentiostatic control, but they diverge in what charge transfer is asked to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis section organizes three closely related research areas:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/electrochemical-biosensors\"\u003eElectrochemical Biosensors\u003c\/a\u003e — translate enzyme, antibody, aptamer, and cell-recognition events into amperometric, voltammetric, or impedance signals on noble-metal, screen-printed carbon, conducting-polymer, and carbon-nanomaterial transducers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/electrochemical-actuators\"\u003eElectrochemical Actuators\u003c\/a\u003e — convert ionic motion into mechanical work through conducting polymers, carbon nanotube and graphene electrodes, ionic polymer-metal composites built on sulfonated PFSA ionomer membranes, and ionogel or hydrogel matrices.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/electrochemical-random-access-memories-ecrams\"\u003eElectrochemical Random-Access Memories (ECRAMs)\u003c\/a\u003e — three-terminal mixed ionic-electronic devices that store analog conductance by shuttling protons, lithium, sodium, or oxygen vacancies between a gate reservoir and a PEDOT:PSS, tungsten-oxide, titanium-oxide, or lithium-intercalation channel for in-memory analog compute.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAcross all three, the working materials overlap heavily: conducting polymers such as polypyrrole, polyaniline, and PEDOT:PSS; sulfonated PFSA ionomers; carbon nanotubes, graphene, and reduced graphene oxide; imidazolium and pyrrolidinium ionic liquids; and proton- or lithium-conducting solid and gel electrolytes. Characterization leans on cyclic voltammetry, chronoamperometry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, and pulsed-write protocols, paired with mechanical, optical, or transistor-channel readouts depending on the device.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you are building label-free assays, start with biosensors; for soft transducers and artificial-muscle work, see actuators; for analog neuromorphic hardware, see ECRAMs. Underlying materials and instrumentation live in their primary chemistry and instrumentation collections elsewhere in the catalog.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/echemsupplies.com\/collections\/bioelectronic.oembed","provider":"EChem Supplies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}