{"id":85266,"date":"2018-11-29T11:22:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T19:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/hydrogel-based-electrodes-for-brain-implants-developed"},"modified":"2018-11-29T11:22:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T19:22:50","slug":"hydrogel-based-electrodes-for-brain-implants-developed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/hydrogel-based-electrodes-for-brain-implants-developed","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogel-based electrodes for brain implants developed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hydrogel-based-electrodes-for-brain-implants-developed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hydrogels are physical and chemical polymer networks capable of retaining large quantities of liquid in aqueous conditions without losing their dimensional stability. They are used in a whole host of applications, and in combination with other components and they acquire specific properties such as electrical conductivity. The Materials + Technology research group in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Environment of the UPV\/EHU\u2019s Faculty of Engineering selected a biopolymer that had not previously been used for applications of this type: starch. \u201cOne of our lines of research focuses on starch, and we regard it as having biological, physical and chemical properties suitable for producing hydrogels,\u201d said Kizkitza Gonzalez-Munduate, a member of the group.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-11-hydrogel-based-electrodes-brain-implants.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;11-hydrogel-based-electrodes-brain-implants.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydrogels are physical and chemical polymer networks capable of retaining large quantities of liquid in aqueous conditions without losing their dimensional stability. They are used in a whole host of applications, and in combination with other components and they acquire specific properties such as electrical conductivity. The Materials + Technology research group in the Department [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,38,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-engineering","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85266","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}