In this issue we have included a review paper from one of our sister journals, Techovation: “Technological Infrastructure and Regional Economic Development of Biotechnology Firms” by Peter Haug and Philip Ness. The paper describes empirical evidence from 37 commercial biotechnology firms on background attributes, company origins, financial capital resources, market distributions and strategic a...

Experimental techniques that interface single biomolecules directly with microelectronic systems are increasingly being used in a wide range of powerful applications, from fundamental studies of biomolecules to ultra-sensitive assays. In this study, we review several technologies that can perform electronic measurements of single molecules in solution: ion channels, nanopore sensors, carbon nan...

Bioelectronics are powerful tools for monitoring and stimulating biological biochemical processes, with applications ranging from neural interface simulation to biosensing. The increasing demand bioelectronics has greatly promoted the development of new nanomaterials as detection platforms. Recently, owing their ultrathin structures excellent physicochemical properties, emerging two-dimensional...

The emerging field of bioelectronic medicine seeks methods for deciphering and modulating electrophysiological activity in the body to attain therapeutic effects at target organs. Current approaches to interfacing with peripheral nerves and muscles rely heavily on wires, creating problems for chronic use, while emerging wireless approaches lack the size scalability necessary to interrogate smal...

Conducting polymer hydrogels represent a unique class of materials that synergizes the advantageous features of hydrogels and organic conductors and have been used in many applications such as bioelectronics and energy storage devices. They are often synthesized by polymerizing conductive polymer monomer within a nonconducting hydrogel matrix, resulting in deterioration of their electrical prop...

The electronics surrounding us in our daily lives rely almost exclusively on electrons as the dominant charge carrier. In stark contrast, biological systems rarely use electrons but rather use ions and molecules of varying size. Due to the unique combination of both electronic and ionic/molecular conductivity in conducting and semiconducting organic polymers and small molecules, these materials...