{"id":205031,"date":"2025-01-31T10:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T16:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/focus-on-organic-transistors-for-health-sensors-within-living-organisms"},"modified":"2025-01-31T10:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T16:40:08","slug":"focus-on-organic-transistors-for-health-sensors-within-living-organisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/focus-on-organic-transistors-for-health-sensors-within-living-organisms","title":{"rendered":"Focus on organic transistors for health sensors within living organisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/focus-on-organic-transistors-for-health-sensors-within-living-organisms.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>QUT researchers are part of an international group who have explored ways in which organic transistors are being developed for use as wearable health sensors.<\/p>\n<p>The currently available bioelectronic devices, such as pacemakers, that can be embedded with the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/human+body\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">human body<\/a> are mostly based on rigid components.<\/p>\n<p>However, the next-generation devices\u2014which are researched and developed by bioelectronic engineers, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/organic+chemists\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">organic chemists<\/a>, and materials scientists\u2014will use soft organic materials that allow comfortable wearability as well as efficient monitoring of health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUT researchers are part of an international group who have explored ways in which organic transistors are being developed for use as wearable health sensors. The currently available bioelectronic devices, such as pacemakers, that can be embedded with the human body are mostly based on rigid components. However, the next-generation devices\u2014which are researched and developed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1495,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-health","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205031","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}