Guest Editors
Eleonora Macchia
Åbo Akademi University– Turku (Finland)
Dr. Eleonora Macchia is a Senior Researcher – Cathegory B, as PI of the project “Protein Detection at the Single Molecule Limit with a Self-powered Organic Transistor for HIV early diagnosis (ProSiT)” funded by Academy of Finland Research Council (GA#332106). Since March 2019, she has been a project researcher at the Åbo Akademi University, in the framework of the H2020 European project “Single molecule bio-electronic smart system array for clinical testing SiMBiT” (GA#824946). Previously, she has been a Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bari. She received her PhD in Chemical Sciences summa cum laude in 2018 from the University of Bari and her master’s degree in Physics 110/110 cum laude in 2014 from the same institution. At the age of 31 Eleonora Macchia has published 30 papers on International Journals and she is the first author of 16 of them and corresponding author of 3 of them. Her works gathered 658 Google Scholar citations resulting in an h-index of 15. She is also co-inventor of an international patent. Besides, she is co-author of five book chapters, as corresponding author in two of them, and she participated to 31 National and International Conferences, with 17 oral contributions and 14 posters. She was awarded with 8 national and international scientific grants and awards, and was selected as Top 10 candidate of the XVII Edition of the award “L’Oréal Italia Per le Donne e la Scienza” in collaboration with “Commissione Nazionale Italiana per l’UNESCO”. She is also strongly committed to the role of model for younger women scientists. Among other activities, she was selected as a Guest Speaker for the event "Global Women Breakfast event 2021" sponsored by IUPAC at Navyug Kanya Mahavidyalaya University. Moreover, she was selected as a role model for the project Inspiring Girls funded by the association Valore D and sponsored by Eni and Intesa San Paolo.
Paolo Bollella
Università degli Studi di Bari “A. Moro” – Bari (Italy)
Dr. Paolo Bollella is an assistant professor at University of Bari in the Department of Chemistry. Till December 2020, he was a Research Assistant Professor at Clarkson University in the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science (USA). After his PhD, he joined the Department of Analytical Chemistry at Åbo Akademi in Turku (Finland) with a Johan Gadolin PostDoc fellowship awarded from the board of Johan Gadolin Process Chemistry Center. In October 2018, he joined the group of “Bioelectronics & Bionanotechnology” led by Prof. Evgeny Katz. In March 2019, he was awarded with the Minerva Prize for the Scientific Research – Merit Mention for the achievements obtained during his doctoral thesis based on the study of Mediated/Direct Electron Transfer of Redox Protein for Biosensors and Biofuel Cells Applications. In 2020, he was recognized among the top 100000 most influencing scientists and engineers (statistical analysis elaborated by Stanford University). He is author of 72 papers on peer-reviewed international journals (Hirsch-index 20), 3 book chapters, 1 student book, 2 proceedings and almost 60 oral or poster contributions to national and international conferences.
Collection Overview
Label-free and ultrasensitive detections have been recently demonstrated with large-area bioelectronic devices, operated in a liquid environment. Those are high-performing, stable, and reliable systems that exhibit most of the ideal features to conveniently serve in point-of-care testing systems. They can be produced with cost-effective large-area technologies. In this perspective, one important most widely investigated aspect is the development of water-stable semiconductors under operation conditions.
Therefore, the goal of this collection is to create a novel library of experimental methods for the latest developments in label-free sensing systems based on printable large-area bioelectronic devices encompassing outstanding stability in water. Thus, this collection will focus on the latest methods for low-cost deposition of semiconductors, integration of advanced printable semiconducting electronic channel materials for bioelectronic platforms with long-term stability while operated in water as well as the electrical characterizations assessing the reliability and stability of the devices.
In this special collection, we invite scientists with research relevant to the fabrication and characterization of stable and reliable bioelectronic devices, to publish their techniques as JoVE articles.