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Soft Printable Electrode Coating for Neural Interfaces

Shur, Michael  
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Fallegger, Florian  
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Pirondini, Elvira
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June 26, 2020
ACS Applied Bio Materials

The mechanical mismatch between implantable interfaces and neural tissues may be reduced by employing soft polymeric materials. Here, we report on a simple strategy to prepare and pattern a soft electrode coating of neural interfacing devices based on a screen-printable conducting hydrogel. The coating formulation, based on polyacrylamide and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate, is suitable to additive manufacturing and exhibits excellent adhesion to polydimethylsiloxane, an elastomer commonly used as a substrate in soft neural interfaces. The soft conductive coating displays a tunable elastic modulus in the 10–100 kPa range and electrochemical properties on a par with stiff conductive inks while supporting good neural cell attachment and proliferation in vitro. Next, the soft printable hydrogel is integrated within a 4 × 4 microelectrode array for electrocorticography with 250 μm-diameter contacts. Acute recording of cortical local field potentials and electrochemical characterization preimplantation and postimplantation highlight the stability of the soft organic conductor. The overall robustness of the soft coating and its patterning method provide a promising route for a range of implantable bioelectronic applications.

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DOI
10.1021/acsabm.0c00401
Author(s)
Shur, Michael  
Fallegger, Florian  
Pirondini, Elvira
Roux, Adrien
Bichat, Arnaud  
Barraud, Quentin  
Courtine, Grégoire  
Lacour, Stéphanie P.  
Date Issued

2020-06-26

Published in
ACS Applied Bio Materials
Volume

3

Issue

7

Start page

4388

End page

4397

Subjects

conductive hydrogel

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soft electrode coating

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neural interfaces

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electrocorticography array

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microelectrodes

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REVIEWED

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LSBI  
UPCOURTINE  
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BSCGI0_15780

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June 29, 2020
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