Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > Printing bioelectronics

Research

Electronic data

  • 2020GriffinNaturalSciencesMSc

    Final published version, 23.5 MB, PDF document

    Embargo ends: 17/07/25

    Available under license: CC BY-NC-ND: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

Text available via DOI:

View graph of relations

Printing bioelectronics

Research output: Thesis › Master's Thesis

Unpublished

Standard

Printing bioelectronics. / Griffin, Becky.
Lancaster University, 2020. 91 p.

Research output: Thesis › Master's Thesis

Harvard

Griffin, B 2020, 'Printing bioelectronics', Masters by Research, Lancaster University. https://doi.org/10.17635/lancaster/thesis/1041

APA

Griffin, B. (2020). Printing bioelectronics. [Master's Thesis, Lancaster University]. Lancaster University. https://doi.org/10.17635/lancaster/thesis/1041

Vancouver

Griffin B. Printing bioelectronics. Lancaster University, 2020. 91 p. doi: 10.17635/lancaster/thesis/1041

Author

Griffin, Becky. / Printing bioelectronics. Lancaster University, 2020. 91 p.

Bibtex

@mastersthesis{1dc27756a2ff477cbfb07165b97e5306,
title = "Printing bioelectronics",
abstract = "Bioelectronics is a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary research area, notably for the promises it holds in robotics, augmented reality, and medicine. It involves a mixture of inorganic and organic materials such as metal alloys, graphene, carbon nanotubes, or conducting polymers. This project printed 3D structures in/on the surface of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) via direct laser writing (DLW) using a photonic Nanoscribe. The research was carried out by printing materials inside silicone coated coverslips to establish a printing technique, toxicity screening the components of the “ink” (in vivo), before printing in/on C. elegans. This was done using biologically derived conjugated monomers (e.g. pyrrole) in order to minimise anytoxic effects of the printing process. 3D printing of materials in/on the surface of C. elegans was observed.The scientific leap in this project is 3D printing materials (conductive polymers) in vivo as this research has not, to the best of our knowledge, been undertaken or reported before. It opens the door to the application of technology to be applied to therapeutic devices as nerve interfaces, potentially paving the way for non-/minimally-invasive administration of electroceutical therapeutic devices in the future. ",
author = "Becky Griffin",
year = "2020",
month = jul,
day = "17",
doi = "10.17635/lancaster/thesis/1041",
language = "English",
publisher = "Lancaster University",
school = "Lancaster University",

}

RIS

TY - GEN

T1 - Printing bioelectronics

AU - Griffin, Becky

PY - 2020/7/17

Y1 - 2020/7/17

N2 - Bioelectronics is a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary research area, notably for the promises it holds in robotics, augmented reality, and medicine. It involves a mixture of inorganic and organic materials such as metal alloys, graphene, carbon nanotubes, or conducting polymers. This project printed 3D structures in/on the surface of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) via direct laser writing (DLW) using a photonic Nanoscribe. The research was carried out by printing materials inside silicone coated coverslips to establish a printing technique, toxicity screening the components of the “ink” (in vivo), before printing in/on C. elegans. This was done using biologically derived conjugated monomers (e.g. pyrrole) in order to minimise anytoxic effects of the printing process. 3D printing of materials in/on the surface of C. elegans was observed.The scientific leap in this project is 3D printing materials (conductive polymers) in vivo as this research has not, to the best of our knowledge, been undertaken or reported before. It opens the door to the application of technology to be applied to therapeutic devices as nerve interfaces, potentially paving the way for non-/minimally-invasive administration of electroceutical therapeutic devices in the future.

AB - Bioelectronics is a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary research area, notably for the promises it holds in robotics, augmented reality, and medicine. It involves a mixture of inorganic and organic materials such as metal alloys, graphene, carbon nanotubes, or conducting polymers. This project printed 3D structures in/on the surface of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) via direct laser writing (DLW) using a photonic Nanoscribe. The research was carried out by printing materials inside silicone coated coverslips to establish a printing technique, toxicity screening the components of the “ink” (in vivo), before printing in/on C. elegans. This was done using biologically derived conjugated monomers (e.g. pyrrole) in order to minimise anytoxic effects of the printing process. 3D printing of materials in/on the surface of C. elegans was observed.The scientific leap in this project is 3D printing materials (conductive polymers) in vivo as this research has not, to the best of our knowledge, been undertaken or reported before. It opens the door to the application of technology to be applied to therapeutic devices as nerve interfaces, potentially paving the way for non-/minimally-invasive administration of electroceutical therapeutic devices in the future.

U2 - 10.17635/lancaster/thesis/1041

DO - 10.17635/lancaster/thesis/1041

M3 - Master's Thesis

PB - Lancaster University

ER -