Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Printable microscale interfaces for long-term peripheral nerve mapping and precision control

  • Timothy M. Otchy,
  • Christos Michas,
  • Blaire Lee,
  • Krithi Gopalan,
  • Vidisha Nerurkar,
  • Jeremy Gleick,
  • Dawit Semu,
  • Louis Darkwa,
  • Bradley J. Holinski,
  • Daniel J. Chew,
  • Alice E. White,
  • Timothy J. Gardner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18032-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Modulation of peripheral nervous system signalling has many applications in medicine, neurobiology and machine-man interfaces. Here the authors develop a microscale implantable device for chronic interfacing with a small diameter nerve, and show multi-week in vivo recording and control of activity.