Carbon nanotube yarn electrodes for enhanced detection of neurotransmitter dynamics in live brain tissue

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 7864-7873

  Schmidt, Andreas C ^a   Wang, Xin ^b   Zhu, Yuntian ^b   Sombers, Leslie A ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon fiber; dopamine; FSCV; microelectrode; voltammetry

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE YARNS; DOPAMINE; ELECTROACTIVE NEUROTRANSMITTERS; ELECTRON TRANSFER KINETICS; FAST SCAN CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; FSCV; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STRUCTURAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CARBON FIBERS; CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; MICROELECTRODES; MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN); NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; VOLTAMMETRY; WOOL; YARN;

SPINNING (FIBERS);

AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; CARBON NANOTUBE; NANOFIBER;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHEMISTRY; CONDUCTOMETRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROELECTRODE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CONDUCTOMETRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NANOFIBERS; NANOTUBES, CARBON; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84884964425     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn402857u     Document Type: Article

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