Microfluid Device Delivers Nanotube Fiber (IMAGE)

Rice University

Microfluid Device Delivers Nanotube Fiber

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A microfluidic device delivers a carbon nanotube fiber into agarose, a lab experiment stand-in for brain tissue. The device could provide a gentler method to implant wires into patients with neurological diseases and help scientists explore cognitive processes and develop implants to help people to see, to hear and to control artificial limbs.

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Robinson Lab/Rice University

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