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Finally, a simple solution to biofouling

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Composite electrodes made of nanowires and bovine serum albumin enable electrochemical protein biosensors that can be used in whole blood for a month or more.

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Fig. 1: The nanocomposite electrode.

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Gooding, J.J. Finally, a simple solution to biofouling. Nat. Nanotechnol. 14, 1089–1090 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-019-0573-0

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