A transparent organic transistor structure for bidirectional stimulation and recording of primary neurons

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 672-680

  Benfenati, Valentina ^a   Toffanin, Stefano ^b   Bonetti, Simone ^b   Turatti, Guido ^c   Pistone, Assunta ^a   Chiappalone, Michela ^d   Sagnella, Anna ^a   Stefani, Andrea ^c   Generali, Gianluca ^c   Ruani, Giampiero ^b   Saguatti, Davide ^b   Zamboni, Roberto ^a   Muccini, Michele ^b,c  

^a Istituto Per La Sintesi Organica E La Fotoreattività   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c EWings Srl   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; MICROELECTRODES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; SENSORS;

BIO-ELECTRICAL ACTIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR RECORDING; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MECHANICAL FLEXIBILITY; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROELECTRODE ARRAY; ORGANIC MATERIALS; ORGANIC TRANSISTOR;

NEURONS;

ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REFRACTOMETRY; SEMICONDUCTOR;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICROELECTRODES; NEURONS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; RATS; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSISTORS, ELECTRONIC;

EID: 84879417831     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3630     Document Type: Article

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