Recently, hydrogel has been extensively used in various biomedical applications including soft contact
lenses, wound healing materials and as a means for controlled drug delivery and release. In this
study, we propose to use hydrogel as a novel neural interface. Planar microelectrode arrays were
coated with hydrogel in order to improve the quality of the interface and to aid in drug delivery to cells
on microelectrode arrays (MEAs).This work was supported by the International
Collaboration Program, NBS-ERC (Nano Bioelectronics
and Systems Engineering Research Center)/
KOSEF (Korea Science and Engineering Foundation)
and also supported in part by the Nanobiotechnology
Center (NBTC), an STC Program of the
National Science Foundation under Agreement No.
ECS-9876771
