Plants: Electronics interface (Conference Presentation)

Eleni Stavrinidou

doi:10.1117/12.2320242

18 September 2018 Plants: Electronics interface (Conference Presentation)

Eleni Stavrinidou

Proceedings Volume 10738, Organic and Hybrid Sensors and Bioelectronics XI; 1073803 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2320242
Event: SPIE Organic Photonics + Electronics, 2018, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Organic electronic materials are ideal for interfacing with biological systems in that they are biocompatible, bio-stable, and can be tailored for high electronic and ionic conductivity. These materials have been primarily applied to mammalian cells, tissues, and organisms as active components in bioelectronic devices for biomedical applications. Recently we interfaced organic electronic materials with plants. Plants are complex biological organisms and comprise our primary source of food, but are also a source of oxygen, renewable energy, materials, medicines and regulators of the ecosystem. We used water-soluble conducting polymers and oligomers that can self organize or polymerize in vivo, with the plant acting as the catalyst and template for the chemical reaction. We demonstrated analogue and digital circuits manufactured in the organs of a plant as well as supercapacitors for energy storage. Our latest findings show the organic electronic materials organising and forming conductors in parallel with the growth of the plant, resulting in a bio-hybrid system. In addition we are using bioelectronic devices to sense and actuate plant functions. We are applying devices such as ion pumps and organic electrochemical transistors to plants in order to control growth, transpiration and sense molecules related to photosynthesis. In this talk, I will present our recent advancements and discuss potential applications of our technology.

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Eleni Stavrinidou "Plants: Electronics interface (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10738, Organic and Hybrid Sensors and Bioelectronics XI, 1073803 (18 September 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2320242

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Electronics

Interfaces

Organic electronics

Organisms

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Biomedical optics

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