Silk-Inspired Neurotechnology: Soft, Flexible and Cont'ormal Silk Electrode Interfaces for The Peripheral Nerve

摘要

In this work, we reported the feasibility of realizing water-stable, non-dissolvable soft conformal silk electrode arrays for interfacing with the peripheral nerves. We observed that the silk arrays were soft and could couple intimately to the wet surfaces of the peripheral nerve. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such demonstration of silk interfaces and can impact basic neuroscience research and clinical trial industry.