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Bioelectronics goes vertical

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Remotely powered vertical electrochemical transistors are demonstrated to track subtle nerve-cell activity even when the transistor core is fully shielded from the biological environment.

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Fig. 1: Schematics of vertical transistor structure with remote readout.

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Eckel, C., Weitz, R.T. Bioelectronics goes vertical. Nat. Mater. 22, 1165–1166 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01650-w

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