Abstract
In this chapter, we focus on recent developments in the processing techniques and biomedical applications of organic electronics. Organic conducting polymers possess many advantageous properties that can be exploited in different fields (notably bioelectronics). Conducting polymers, once doped, possess high conductivity, comparable to semiconductors. Their biocompatibility, processability, ion-electric current conversion, flexibility, and ability to be operated in aqueous solution make them ideal candidates for bioelectronics. For example, these polymers have been employed in organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) that are important for lab-on-skin devices and wearable electronics. Conducting polymers also have uses when deposited on chronically implanted devices in contact with biological tissues, such as flexible electronics and neural probes, where biointegration and biotic-abiotic frontier interactions are paramount. The quantity of processing techniques for conducting polymers is relevant to patterning and spin-coating, among other applications, of films, electrospun fibers, and electrochemically deposited coatings. Conducting organic polymers have the intrinsic properties that bioelectronics require and can be tailored via multiple processing techniques to adapt to specific needs.
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