Liquid Gated Carbon Nanotubes Field Effect Transistors (LG-CNTFET) Platform for Herbicide Sensing Available to Purchase

Single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) is a one-dimensional system with all its carbon atoms present on the surface, hence its conductance is highly sensitive to the surrounding charge environment. Due to the extreme charge sensitivity, biocompatibility and chemical stability, SWCNT is particularly interested in biosensing application. In this paper, we demonstrated a practical approach of fabricating laminated SWCNT liquid gate field effect transistor (LGFET) through a solution processed route involving only two materials, PDMS and SWCNT. The laminated SWCNT LGFETs show great potential towards atrazine detection. The change in the detection signal in terms of conductance was deduced to be due to electrostatic gating mechanism caused by the localized interaction between CNT and the biomolecules. Although relatively high concentration was used in the experiment, the detection limit could be lowered down further by improving the signal-to-noise ratio of the measurement, which can be done through either signal amplification, and/or noise reduction.