Transcranial Electrical Stimulation and Recording of Brain Activity using Freestanding Plant-Based Conducting Polymer Hydrogel CompositesShow others and affiliations
2020 (English)In: Advanced Materials Technologies, E-ISSN 2365-709X, no 3, article id 1900652Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Transcranial electrical stimulation is a noninvasive neurostimulation technique with a wide range of therapeutic applications. However, current electrode materials are typically not optimized for this abiotic/biotic interface which requires high charge capacity, operational stability, and conformability. Here, a plant-based composite electrode material based on the combination of aloe vera (AV) hydrogel and a conducting polymer (CP; poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):polystyrene sulfonate, PEDOT:PSS) is reported. This material system is fabricated into films and provides biocompatibility, conformability, and stability, while offering desirable electrical properties of the PEDOT:PSS. AVCP films are also molded onto the rough surface of the skull leading to a mechanically stable and robust interface. The in vivo efficacy of the AVCP films is verified to function as stimulating and recording electrodes by placing them on the skull of a rat and concomitantly inducing focal seizures and acquiring the evoked neural activity. AVCP films pave the way for high-quality biological interfaces that are broadly applicable and can facilitate advances in closed-loop responsive stimulation devices.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Wiley-VCH Verlagsgesellschaft, 2020. no 3, article id 1900652
Keywords [en]
aloe vera; hydrogel; PEDOT; PSS; transcranial electrical stimulation (TES)
National Category
Textile, Rubber and Polymeric Materials
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-162729DOI: 10.1002/admt.201900652ISI: 000499752100001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-162729DiVA, id: diva2:1380728
Note
Funding Agencies|Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science; Columbia University Irving Medical Center Department of Neurology; Human Frontiers Postdoctoral Fellowship Program [LT000831/2017-C]; Marie Sklodowska Curie Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IFEF-ST, Trans-Plant) [702641]; VR starting grant; Vetenskapsradet (VR-, VR-) Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation; Swedish Government Strategic Research Area in Materials Science on Functional Materials at Linkoping University (Faculty Grant SFO-Mat-LiU) [2009-00971]; Columbia University Institute for Genomic Medicine
2019-12-192019-12-192022-09-15Bibliographically approved