Elastomeric and soft conducting microwires for implantable neural interfaces

Soft Matter

Volumn 11, Issue 24, 2015, Pages 4847-4861

  Kolarcik, Christi L ^a,b   Luebben, Silvia D ^c,g   Sapp, Shawn A ^c,d   Hanner, Jenna ^a   Snyder, Noah ^a,b   Kozai, Takashi D Y ^a,b   Chang, Emily ^c   Nabity, James A ^c,e   Nabity, Shawn T ^c   Lagenaur, Carl F ^b,f   Cui, X Tracy ^a,b  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c TDA RESEARCH INC   (United States)

^d Tusaar Corporation   (United States)

^e University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g Boulder Scientific Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CELL CULTURE; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MICROELECTRODES; MOBILE SECURITY; NEURONS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TISSUE; TUNGSTEN;

CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; ELASTOMERIC ELECTRODES; FAVORABLE INTERACTIONS; INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE; INTRINSICALLY CONDUCTING POLYMER; OPTIMAL COMBINATION; SURFACE IMMOBILIZATION; ULTIMATE TENSILE STRENGTH;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

RODENTIA;

BIOMATERIAL; NANOWIRE; SILASTIC;

ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; YOUNG MODULUS;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELLS, CULTURED; ELASTIC MODULUS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MICROELECTRODES; NANOWIRES; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SILICONE ELASTOMERS;

EID: 84935871322     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c5sm00174a     Document Type: Article

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