Three-dimensional macroporous nanoelectronic networks as minimally invasive brain probes

Nature Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1286-1292

  Xie, Chong ^a   Liu, Jia ^a   Fu, Tian Ming ^a   Dai, Xiaochuan ^a   Zhou, Wei ^a   Lieber, Charles M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NANOELECTRONICS; NEURONS; PROBES; TISSUE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ELECTRICAL RECORDING; LOCAL FIELD POTENTIALS; MECHANICAL PERTURBATIONS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE; PROBE INTERACTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THERAPEUTIC APPLICATION;

BRAIN;

ANIMAL; BRAIN; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RATS;

EID: 84947717695     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4427     Document Type: Article

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