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Title: Non-Carbon 2D Materials-Based Field-Effect Transistor Biosensors: Recent Advances, Challenges, and Future Perspectives
In recent years, field-effect transistors (FETs) have been very promising for biosensor applications due to their high sensitivity, real-time applicability, scalability, and prospect of integrating measurement system on a chip. Non-carbon 2D materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), black phosphorus (BP), and metal oxides, are a group of new materials that have a huge potential in FET biosensor applications. In this work, we review the recent advances and remarkable studies of non-carbon 2D materials, in terms of their structures, preparations, properties and FET biosensor applications. We will also discuss the challenges facing non-carbon 2D materials-FET biosensors and their future perspectives.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1842718
PAR ID:
10300112
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Sensors
Volume:
20
Issue:
17
ISSN:
1424-8220
Page Range / eLocation ID:
4811
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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