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Bernhard Burtscher

Bernhard is originally from Austria where he completed the Bachelor programme (2016) and Master’s programme (2019) in Technical Physics at Graz University of Technology. In his Master’s Thesis, he investigated transferable electronics in the form of inkjet printed organic photodiodes on top of an ultrathin, commercial, conformal, and transferable polymer substrate.

For his PhD studies, he joined the Laboratory of Organic Electronics at Linköping University in October 2019 through the BORGES project as an Early Stage Researcher. His goal is to develop organic bioelectronic components such as organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) for biosensing applications, in particular label-free sensing platforms for inflammatory biomarkers in multiple sclerosis (MS). His research will include materials and devices based on (semi)conducting polymers as well as polyelectrolyte “ion conductors” with the aim of translating biological and electronic signals for future diagnostics and clinical tools.

Publications

2024

Bernhard Burtscher (2024) OECT-based biosensors for capacitive and faradaic sensing
Bernhard Burtscher, Chiara Diacci, Anatolii Makhinia, Marios Savvakis, Erik O. Gabrielsson, Lothar Veith, Xianjie Liu, Xenofon Strakosas, Daniel T. Simon (2024) Functionalization of PEDOT:PSS for aptamer-based sensing of IL6 using organic electrochemical transistors npj Biosensing, Vol. 1, Article 7 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Maciej Gryszel, Donghak Byun, Bernhard Burtscher, Tobias Abrahamsson, Jan Brodsky, Daniel T Simon, Magnus Berggren, Eric Daniel Glowacki, Xenofon Strakosas, Mary Donahue (2024) Vertical Organic Electrochemical Transistor Platforms for Efficient Electropolymerization of Thiophene Based Oligomers Journal of Materials Chemistry C (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2023

Chiara Diacci, Bernhard Burtscher, Marcello Berto, Tero-Petri Ruoko, Samuel Lienemann, Pierpaolo Greco, Magnus Berggren, Marco Borsari, Daniel Simon, Carlo A. Bortolotti, Fabio Biscarini (2023) Organic Electrochemical Transistor Aptasensor for Interleukin-6 Detection ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (Article, review/survey) Continue to DOI
Matteo Massetti, Silan Zhang, Harikesh Padinhare, Bernhard Burtscher, Chiara Diacci, Daniel Simon, Xianjie Liu, Mats Fahlman, Deyu Tu, Magnus Berggren, Simone Fabiano (2023) Fully 3D-printed organic electrochemical transistors NPJ FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS, Vol. 7, Article 11 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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Department of Science and Technology (ITN)

We research and teach in several technical and scientific disciplines in which our main areas are organic electronics, media, communications and logistics.
Power plant, organic electronics, a red rose.

Laboratory of Organic Electronics

At Laboratory of Organic Electronics, LOE, we explore electronic and optical properties of organic materials and organic-inorganic hybrid systems.
An organic electronic ion pump (OEIP). The device uses electrophoretic transport through thin polymer films to deliver ions, neurotransmitters, plant hormones, and other small charged molecules into living tissue.

Organic Bioelectronics

We investigate the transduction between electronic signals and ionic/molecular signals in electroactive surfaces, iontronic chemical delivery and circuitry, biosensors, mimicking neural function, next-generation medical therapy, and many other areas.

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