[HTML][HTML] Strategies for surface coatings of implantable cardiac medical devices

D Coronel-Meneses, C Sánchez-Trasviña… - … in bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Cardiac medical devices (CMDs) are required when the patient's cardiac capacity or activity
is compromised. To guarantee its correct functionality, the building materials in the …

[HTML][HTML] Amorphous SiC Thin Films Deposited by Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition for Passivation in Biomedical Devices

S Greenhorn, E Bano, V Stambouli, K Zekentes - Materials, 2024 - mdpi.com
Amorphous silicon carbide (a-SiC) is a wide-bandgap semiconductor with high robustness
and biocompatibility, making it a promising material for applications in biomedical device …

[HTML][HTML] Fabrication of a monolithic implantable neural interface from cubic silicon carbide

M Beygi, JT Bentley, CL Frewin, CA Kuliasha, A Takshi… - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
One of the main issues with micron-sized intracortical neural interfaces (INIs) is their long-
term reliability, with one major factor stemming from the material failure caused by the …

[HTML][HTML] Amorphous silicon carbide platform for next generation penetrating neural interface designs

F Deku, CL Frewin, A Stiller, Y Cohen, S Aqeel… - Micromachines, 2018 - mdpi.com
Microelectrode arrays that consistently and reliably record and stimulate neural activity
under conditions of chronic implantation have so far eluded the neural interface community …

Cellular toxicity of silicon carbide nanomaterials as a function of morphology

F Chen, G Li, ER Zhao, J Li, G Hableel, JE Lemaster… - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
Silicon carbide has been shown to be biocompatible and is used as a coating material for
implanted medical devices to prevent biofilms. Silicon carbide nanomaterials are also …

[HTML][HTML] A Flexible a-SiC-Based Neural Interface Utilizing Pyrolyzed-Photoresist Film (C) Active Sites

C Feng, CL Frewin, MRE Tanjil, R Everly, J Bieber… - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Carbon containing materials, such as graphene, carbon-nanotubes (CNT), and graphene
oxide, have gained prominence as possible electrodes in implantable neural interfaces due …

Planar amorphous silicon carbide microelectrode arrays for chronic recording in rat motor cortex

JR Abbott, EN Jeakle, P Haghighi, JO Usoro… - Biomaterials, 2024 - Elsevier
Chronic implantation of intracortical microelectrode arrays (MEAs) capable of recording from
individual neurons can be used for the development of brain-machine interfaces. However …

[HTML][HTML] Silicon carbide and mri: towards developing a mri safe neural interface

M Beygi, W Dominguez-Viqueira, C Feng, G Mumcu… - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
An essential method to investigate neuromodulation effects of an invasive neural interface
(INI) is magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Presently, MRI imaging of patients with neural …

Neural interfaces based on amorphous silicon carbide ultramicroelectrode arrays

F Deku, A Ghazavi, SF Cogan - Bioelectronics in Medicine, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Size and material considerations are important in the development of next-generation
chronically reliable neural interface devices. In this review, we discuss the use of amorphous …

Silicon carbide biotechnology: carbon-based neural interfaces

C Feng, M Beygi, CL Frewin, MRE Tanjil… - TMS 2021 150th Annual …, 2021 - Springer
Implantable neural interfaces (INI) have gained significant interest since the 1970s.
However, the materials currently utilized for neural interfaces suffer from limitations such as …