{"id":31144,"date":"2016-10-17T13:47:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T20:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/engineers-reveal-fabrication-process-for-revolutionary-transparent-graphene-neural-sensors"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:08:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:08:35","slug":"engineers-reveal-fabrication-process-for-revolutionary-transparent-graphene-neural-sensors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/engineers-reveal-fabrication-process-for-revolutionary-transparent-graphene-neural-sensors","title":{"rendered":"Engineers reveal fabrication process for revolutionary transparent graphene neural sensors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-reveal-fabrication-process-for-revolutionary-transparent-graphene-neural-sensors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"transparent neural sensor\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-reveal-fabrication-process-for-revolutionary-transparent-graphene-neural-sensors.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"619\" height=\"653\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:560px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><b>A blue light shines through a transparent, implantable medical sensor onto a brain. The invention may help neural researchers better view brain activity. (credit: Justin Williams research group)<\/b><\/div>\n<p>In an open-access <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nprot\/journal\/v11\/n11\/full\/nprot.2016.127.html\" target=\"_blank\">paper published Thursday<\/a> (Oct. 13, 2016) in the journal <em>Nature<\/em><em> Protocols<\/em>, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison engineers have published details of how to fabricate and use neural microelectrocorticography (\u03bcECoG) arrays made with transparent graphene in applications in electrophysiology, fluorescent microscopy, optical coherence tomography, and optogenetics.<\/p>\n<p>Graphene is one of the most promising candidates for transparent neural electrodes, because the material has a UV to IR transparency of more than 90%, in addition to its high electrical and thermal conductivity, flexibility, and biocompatibility, the researchers note in the paper. That allows for simultaneous high-resolution imaging and optogenetic control.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/engineers-reveal-fabrication-process-for-revolutionary-transparent-graphene-neural-sensors?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=66dc42f062-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-66dc42f062-282168125\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/engineers-reveal-fabrication-proce...;282168125<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blue light shines through a transparent, implantable medical sensor onto a brain. The invention may help neural researchers better view brain activity. (credit: Justin Williams research group) In an open-access paper published Thursday (Oct. 13, 2016) in the journal Nature Protocols, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison engineers have published details of how to fabricate and use [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31144","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\/394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65972,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31144\/revisions\/65972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}