High performing solution-coated electrolyte-gated organic field-effect transistors for aqueous media operation

The authors thank the ERC StG 2012–306826 e-GAMES project, the Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), the DGI (Spain) project BE-WELL CTQ2013-40480-R, the Generalitat de Catalunya (2014-SGR-17) and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, through the ‘Severo Ochoa’ Programme for Centres of Excellence in R&D (SEV- 2015-0496). Q. Z. acknowledges the China Scholarship Council, the National Natural Science Foundation (NSF) of China (Grant No. 11404266) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (Grant No. XDJK2014C081). Q. Z. And I. T. are enrolled in the Materials Science PhD Program of Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. F.L. gratefully acknowledges the “Juan de la Cierva” programme. The research leading to these results has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union (FP7/2007–2013) under REA grant agreement no.600388 (TECNIOSpring programme), and from the Agency for Business Competitiveness of the Government of Catalonia, ACCIO. The authors thank Dr. D. Gutierrez and Dr. S. Galindo for their assistance with the switching speed measurements.