Soft Electronics Detect Brain Signals

Soft Electronics Detect Brain Signals
Mar-07-18
An elastic, biocompatible electrode could offer a new treatment for neurological diseases such as epilepsy.

Developed by a team from Linköping University, Sweden in collaboration with ETH Zürich, New York University and Columbia University, the electrodes are made up of silicon rubber that has been embedded with gold-coated titanium dioxide nanowires. The material is as soft as human tissue, and the manufacturing process requires very little material, which keeps the costs down.

Electrodes implanted in the brains of freely moving rats allowed the team to collect high-quality neural signals, opening the door to more detailed studies of where these signals originate in the brain.

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