Researchers engineer new polymers to change their stiffness and strength when exposed ...(ing very soft brain tissue over time. W...)

Date:3/6/2008

ing, very soft brain tissue over time. "We believe that electrodes that use mechanically adaptive polymer as substrate could alleviate this problem" explains Dustin Tyler, who specializes in neural interfacing and functional electrical stimulation. The development and testing of experimental microelectrodes that involve the new adaptive materials is currently underway. "That's why we designed our first materials to respond to water" explains Weder. "This allows the rigid electrodes to become soft when implanted into the water-rich brain" he adds.

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Contact: Laura M. Massie laura.massie@case.edu 216-368-4442 Case Western Reserve University Source:Eurekalert

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