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Ultraflexible organic amplifier with biocompatible gel electrodes.

ABSTRACT: In vivo electronic monitoring systems are promising technology to obtain biosignals with high spatiotemporal resolution and sensitivity. Here we demonstrate the fabrication of a biocompatible highly conductive gel composite comprising multi-walled carbon nanotube-dispersed sheet with an aqueous hydrogel. This gel composite exhibits admittance of 100 mS cm(-2) and maintains high admittance even in a low-frequency range. On implantation into a living hypodermal tissue for 4 weeks, it showed a small foreign-body reaction compared with widely used metal electrodes. Capitalizing on the multi-functional gel composite, we fabricated an ultrathin and mechanically flexible organic active matrix amplifier on a 1.2-?m-thick polyethylene-naphthalate film to amplify (amplification factor: ?200) weak biosignals. The composite was integrated to the amplifier to realize a direct lead epicardial electrocardiography that is easily spread over an uneven heart tissue.

SUBMITTER: Sekitani T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5411732 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Ultraflexible organic amplifier with biocompatible gel electrodes.

Sekitani Tsuyoshi T Yokota Tomoyuki T Kuribara Kazunori K Kaltenbrunner Martin M Fukushima Takanori T Inoue Yusuke Y Sekino Masaki M Isoyama Takashi T Abe Yusuke Y Onodera Hiroshi H Someya Takao T

Nature communications 20160429

In vivo electronic monitoring systems are promising technology to obtain biosignals with high spatiotemporal resolution and sensitivity. Here we demonstrate the fabrication of a biocompatible highly conductive gel composite comprising multi-walled carbon nanotube-dispersed sheet with an aqueous hydrogel. This gel composite exhibits admittance of 100 mS cm(-2) and maintains high admittance even in a low-frequency range. On implantation into a living hypodermal tissue for 4 weeks, it showed a smal ...[more]

PMID: 27125910

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