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Sweat sensors that won’t catch your drift

A stretchable biosensor with a diode-connected extended-gate transistor pair design can avoid problems related to signal drift, providing reliable detection of biomarkers directly from sweat.

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Fig. 1: Organic transistor designs for biosensing.

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Zhong, Y., Inal, S. Sweat sensors that won’t catch your drift. Nat Electron 8, 884–885 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-025-01478-z

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