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Flexible, multifunctional neural probe with liquid metal enabled, ultra-large tunable stiffness for deep-brain

Ximiao Wen1, Bo Wang2, Shan Huang3

  • 1Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Biosensors & Bioelectronics
|March 1, 2019
PubMed

Keywords:
Drug deliveryElectrochemical biosensorsFlexible electronicsLiquid metalNeural probes

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