{"id":209612,"date":"2025-03-24T10:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T15:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/artificial-nerve-with-organic-transistor-design-shows-promise-for-brain-machine-interfaces"},"modified":"2025-03-24T10:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T15:07:20","slug":"artificial-nerve-with-organic-transistor-design-shows-promise-for-brain-machine-interfaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/artificial-nerve-with-organic-transistor-design-shows-promise-for-brain-machine-interfaces","title":{"rendered":"Artificial nerve with organic transistor design shows promise for brain-machine interfaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-nerve-with-organic-transistor-design-shows-promise-for-brain-machine-interfaces.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, many engineers have been trying to develop hardware components that could emulate the functions of various biological systems, including synapses, the human skin and nerves. These bio-inspired systems include what are referred to as artificial nerves, systems designed to emulate the role of nerves in the body of humans and other animals.<\/p>\n<p>Artificial nerves could be useful for a wide range of applications, ranging from systems for repairing damaged nerves to brain-computer interfaces, highly precise sensors and other advanced electronics. So far, however, the engineering of nerve-inspired systems that operate at biologically compatible frequencies and realistically replicate the function of nerves has proved challenging.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Xi\u2019an Jiaotong University in China and Technical University of Munich recently developed a new high-frequency artificial nerve with a unique design that optimizes the transport of ions and electrons, while also rapidly responding to signals and retaining charge-related information. This nerve-inspired system, introduced in a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41928-025-01357-7\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Electronics<\/i>, is based on homogenously integrated organic electrochemical transistors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, many engineers have been trying to develop hardware components that could emulate the functions of various biological systems, including synapses, the human skin and nerves. These bio-inspired systems include what are referred to as artificial nerves, systems designed to emulate the role of nerves in the body of humans and other animals. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,1523,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}