Materials and technologies for soft implantable neuroprostheses

Nature Reviews Materials

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Lacour, Stéphanie P ^a   Courtine, Grégoire ^a   Guck, Jochen ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 85009978022     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20588437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/natrevmats.2016.63     Document Type: Review

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