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Johan Bobacka is affiliated with Åbo Akademi University in Finland. Their research primarily spans across the fields of Engineering, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering, with a focus on specialized subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Bioengineering, Electrochemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Polymers and Plastics.

The main topics of their work concentrate on Analytical Chemistry and Sensors, Electrochemical sensors and biosensors, Electrochemical Analysis and Applications, and Conducting polymers and applications. Additional areas of interest include Advanced Chemical Sensor Technologies, Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, and Biosensors and Analytical Detection.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Talanta
  • Biosensors and Bioelectronics
  • Electrochimica Acta

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Bobacka are:

  • Zekra Mousavi
  • Tingting Han
  • Ivo Leito
  • Tomasz Sokalski
  • Grzegorz Lisak

Recent selected papers include:

  • "Life cycle assessment of plastic grocery bags and their alternatives in cities with confined waste management structure: A Singapore case study" (2020), Journal of Cleaner Production
  • "Environmental footprint of voltammetric sensors based on screen-printed electrodes: An assessment towards 'green' sensor manufacturing" (2021), Chemosphere
  • "Too small to matter? Physicochemical transformation and toxicity of engineered nTiO2, nSiO2, nZnO, carbon nanotubes, and nAg" (2020), Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • "Solid reference electrode integrated with paper-based microfluidics for potentiometric ion sensing" (2020), Sensors and Actuators B Chemical
  • "A review on conjugated polymer-based electronic tongues" (2022), Analytica Chimica Acta

The scientific output indicates a strong emphasis on sensor technology, electrochemical methods, and environmental applications. The breadth of topics and repeated publications in specialized journals align with a research career focused on advancing electrochemical and biosensor technologies.

Best Publications

  • Potentiometric Ion Sensors

    Johan Bobacka;and Ari Ivaska;Andrzej Lewenstam

  • Potential Stability of All-Solid-State Ion-Selective Electrodes Using Conducting Polymers as Ion-to-Electron Transducers

    Johan Bobacka

  • Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy of oxidized poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) film electrodes in aqueous solutions

    Johan Bobacka;Andrzej Lewenstam;Ari Ivaska

  • Conducting Polymer‐Based Solid‐State Ion‐Selective Electrodes

    Johan Bobacka

  • Potentiometric Ion Sensors Based on Conducting Polymers

    Johan Bobacka;Ari Ivaska;Andrzej Lewenstam

  • Transduction mechanism of carbon nanotubes in solid-contact ion-selective electrodes.

    Gastón A. Crespo;Santiago Macho;Johan Bobacka;F. Xavier Rius

  • A low-cost paper-based inkjet-printed platform for electrochemical analyses

    Anni Määttänen;Ulriika Vanamo;Petri Ihalainen;Petri Pulkkinen

  • Single-piece all-solid-state ion-selective electrode

    Johan. Bobacka;Tom. Lindfors;Mary. McCarrick;Ari. Ivaska

  • Mediatorless sugar/oxygen enzymatic fuel cells based on gold nanoparticle-modified electrodes

    Xiaoju Wang;Magnus Falk;Roberto Heredia Ortiz;Hirotoshi Matsumura

  • All solid-state poly(vinyl chloride) membrane ion-selective electrodes with poly(3-octylthiophene) solid internal contact

    Johan Bobacka;Mary McCarrick;Andrzej Lewenstam;Ari Ivaska

  • Influence of oxygen and carbon dioxide on the electrochemical stability of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) used as ion-to-electron transducer in all-solid-state ion-selective electrodes

    Mercedes Vázquez;Johan Bobacka;Ari Ivaska;Andrzej Lewenstam

  • Mechanism of ionic and redox sensitivity of p-type conducting polymers

    Johan Bobacka;Zhiqiang Gao;Ari Ivaska;Andrzej Lewenstam

  • Solution-cast films of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) as ion-to-electron transducers in all-solid-state ion-selective electrodes

    Mercedes Vázquez;Petter Danielsson;Johan Bobacka;Andrzej Lewenstam

  • Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) doped with carbon nanotubes as ion-to-electron transducer in polymer membrane-based potassium ion-selective electrodes

    Zekra Mousavi;Johan Bobacka;Andrzej Lewenstam;Ari Ivaska

  • Reduced Graphene Oxide Films as Solid Transducers in Potentiometric All-Solid-State Ion-Selective Electrodes

    Rafael Hernández;Jordi Riu;Johan Bobacka;Cristina Vallés

  • Mechanism of ionic and redox sensitivity of p-type conducting polymers: Part 1. Theory

    Andrzej Lewenstam;Johan Bobacka;Ari Ivaska

  • New Signal Readout Principle for Solid-Contact Ion-Selective Electrodes.

    Ulriika Vanamo;Ulriika Vanamo;Elisa Hupa;Ville Yrjänä;Johan Bobacka

  • Plasticizer-free all-solid-state potassium-selective electrode based on poly(3-octylthiophene) and valinomycin

    Johan Bobacka;Ari Ivaska;Andrzej Lewenstam

  • Kinetics of electron transfer between Fe(CN)63−/4− and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) studied by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy

    F Sundfors;J Bobacka;A Ivaska;A Lewenstam

  • Electrochemical control of the standard potential of solid-contact ion-selective electrodes having a conducting polymer as ion-to-electron transducer

    Ulriika Vanamo;Johan Bobacka

  • Development of miniature all-solid-state potentiometric sensing system

    Salzitsa Anastasova-Ivanova;Ulriika Mattinen;Aleksandar Radu;Johan Bobacka

Frequent Co-Authors

Ari Ivaska
Ari Ivaska Åbo Akademi University
Andrzej Lewenstam
Andrzej Lewenstam AGH University of Science and Technology
Grzegorz Lisak
Grzegorz Lisak Nanyang Technological University
Dermot Diamond
Dermot Diamond Dublin City University
Zhiqiang Gao
Zhiqiang Gao National University of Singapore
Andrei Veksha
Andrei Veksha Nanyang Technological University
Ivo Leito
Ivo Leito University of Tartu
Jyri-Pekka Mikkola
Jyri-Pekka Mikkola Umeå University
Kari Rissanen
Kari Rissanen University of Jyväskylä
Jouko Peltonen
Jouko Peltonen Åbo Akademi University

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