Soft, Stretchable and Conformable Bioelectronic Device for Neural Modulation

Bioelectronic interfaces with the nervous systems require soft and conformable platforms for intimate functional communication with soft, wet, and dynamic nerves. However, conventional bioelectronic devices based on bulk solids are dissimilar to tissues and organs in their mechanical properties and composites. Obviously observable in the dynamic development in bioelectronic interfaces in recent years, bioelectronic interfaces have been persistently enhanced in designs and materials to accomplish tissue-matching properties to limit unfavorable foreign body reactions. In this talk, we introduce our recent studies on developing soft, stretchable, and conformable materials and devices for bioelectronic interface and their applications in neural modulation, which opens a new window for flexible and comfortable in vivo bioelectronics with high stimulation efficacy.