{"id":193404,"date":"2024-07-23T22:23:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T03:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/two-step-secret-scientists-solve-electrochemical-biotechnology-mystery"},"modified":"2024-07-23T22:23:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T03:23:42","slug":"two-step-secret-scientists-solve-electrochemical-biotechnology-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/two-step-secret-scientists-solve-electrochemical-biotechnology-mystery","title":{"rendered":"Two-Step Secret: Scientists Solve Electrochemical Biotechnology Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-step-secret-scientists-solve-electrochemical-biotechnology-mystery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>New research has revealed that the lag observed in organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) when switched on is due to a two-step activation process, providing crucial insights for designing more effective and customizable OECTs for various technological and biological applications.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers who want to bridge the divide between biology and technology spend a lot of time thinking about translating between the two different \u201clanguages\u201d of those realms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur digital technology operates through a series of electronic on-off switches that control the flow of current and voltage,\u201d said Rajiv Giridharagopal, a research scientist at the <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/university-of-washington\/\">University of Washington<\/a>. \u201cBut our bodies operate on chemistry. In our brains, neurons propagate signals electrochemically, by moving ions \u2014 charged atoms or molecules \u2014 not electrons.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research has revealed that the lag observed in organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) when switched on is due to a two-step activation process, providing crucial insights for designing more effective and customizable OECTs for various technological and biological applications. Researchers who want to bridge the divide between biology and technology spend a lot of time [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}