Babak Ziaiev, Purdue University (IMAGE)

Purdue University

Babak Ziaiev, Purdue University

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Babak Ziaie, a Purdue associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, demonstrates a new "stretchable" electrode created in research with Stanford University to study how cardiac muscle cells, neurons and other cells react to mechanical stresses from heart attacks, traumatic brain injuries and other diseases. The devices are made by injecting a liquid alloy made of indium and gallium into thin microchannels between two sheets of a plastic polymer.

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Purdue News Service photo/Andrew Hancock

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