Communications Materials (Jan 2021)

Extended gate field-effect-transistor for sensing cortisol stress hormone

  • Shokoofeh Sheibani,
  • Luca Capua,
  • Sadegh Kamaei,
  • Sayedeh Shirin Afyouni Akbari,
  • Junrui Zhang,
  • Hoel Guerin,
  • Adrian M. Ionescu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-020-00114-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Wearable, real-time devices that can monitor hormones are important for personalized healthcare. Here, a platinum/graphene aptamer extended gate field effect transistor is shown to detect cortisol, the primary stress hormone, in physiological fluid.