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Towards biomimetic electronics that emulate cells

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 July 2020

Claudia Lubrano
Affiliation:
Tissue Electronics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Naples, Italy Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiali e Produzione Industriale, Università di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
Giovanni Maria Matrone
Affiliation:
Tissue Electronics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Naples, Italy
Csaba Forro
Affiliation:
Tissue Electronics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Naples, Italy Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Zeinab Jahed
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Andreas Offenhaeusser
Affiliation:
Institute of Biological Information Processes (IBI-3), Bioelectronics, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
Alberto Salleo
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Bianxiao Cui
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Francesca Santoro*
Affiliation:
Tissue Electronics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Naples, Italy
*
Address all correspondence to Francesca Santoro at francesca.santoro@iit.it
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Abstract

Bioelectronics aims to design electronic devices which can be fully integrated within tissues to monitor or stimulate specific cell functions. The main challenge is the engineering of the cell–chip interface and diverse materials, and devices have been developed to recapitulate biological architectures and functionalities. In this Prospective article, the authors give an overview on how the bioelectronics community has exploited biomimetic approaches to emulate cell morphologies, interactions, and functions to design optimal electrical platforms to be coupled to living cells.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society, 2020

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