Congratulations to Dr. Nicki Driscoll on successfully defending her thesis!
News
Our paper on dry MXene EMG sensors is now online in Advanced Materials Technologies
Read about our novel wearable MXene sensors that do not require any conductive gel and can map muscle activation at high-resolution and sensitivity than conventional gelled electrodes. Congratulations Brendan Murphy for the amazing work!
Perspective article on ACS Nano: Nanotechnology Vs. COVID-19
How can we leverage nanotechnology tools and methods in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic? Dr. Vitale joins other nanotechnology experts for a topical perspective article just published in ACS Nano.
Our JoVE paper on the fabrication of MXene neural microelectrodes is online!
Our paper entitled “Fabrication of Ti3C2 MXene microelectrode arrays for in vivo neural recording” is now online in the Journal of Visualized Experiments. Congratulations to Nicki Driscoll and all the co-authors! Here you can watch the video and download the paper describing the Ti3C2 MXene synthesis and microelectrode array fabrication.
Dr. Vitale on BBC CrowdScience
Hear Dr. Vitale talking about novel materials for neurolectronic interfaces on CrowdScience, a radio show and a podcast from the BBC World Service.
Here the link to the episode: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3csz1tx
Dr. Vitale receives the Linda Pechenik Montague Investigator Award
Dr. Vitale has received the Linda Pechenik Montague Investigator Award.
This prestigious award was created by the philanthropist Linda Pechenik Montague to recognize the most promising research faculty at the Perelman School of Medicine. In addition to the prestigious recognition, the award will provide $100,000 to support the research work of Dr. Vitale.
Thanks to Linda Pechenik Montague and to the Perelman School of Medicine for this honor.
Meet the Vitale Lab at BMES 2019
We are getting ready for BMES 2019, which this year will be hosted here in Philadelphia. This year there will be a great representation from the Vitale lab, with 3 oral and 2 poster presentations.
Here the details of our presentations:
- Thursday Oct. 17, 2.15p. Room 120C Nicolette Driscoll will present her talk: “Ti3C2 MXene for Dry EEG Electrodes” (Authors: N. Driscoll, B. Erickson, B. Murphy, N. Apollo, J. Medaglia, F. Vitale)
- Friday Oct. 18, Room 115C Teddy Wang will present his talk: “Flexible, Transparent micro-LED Arrays for Optogenetic Stimulation of Living Electrodes”, (Authors: T. Wang, N. Driscoll, O. Adewole, M. Serruya, K. Cullen, F. Vitale.)
- Friday Oct. 18 Matthew Zwimpfer and Kayla Prezelski will present their poster: “MINT: A Multipoint INjection Technology For Intracerebral Gene Transfer” (Authors: M. Zwimpfer, K. Prezelski, M. Kaiser, T. Lucas, P. Gonzalez-Alegre, F. Vitale)
- Saturday Oct. 19, 8.15a Room 120C Brendan Murphy will present his talk: “A Ti3C2 MXene-Based Array For High-Density Surface Electromyography “ (Authors: B. Murphy, N. Driscoll, N. Apollo, A. Richardson, P. Mulcahey, G. Robbins, T. Dillingham, F. Vitale)
- Saturday Oct. 19 Gary Eberly will present her poster: “Transparent MXene MicroECoG Electrodes For Multi-Modal Seizure Monitoring”. (Authors: G. Eberly, N. Driscoll, B. Murphy, F. Vitale. )
Come and meet us at BMES!
Dr. Vitale receives the K12 Career Development Award
Dr. Vitale has received the Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Engineering Career Development Award (IREK12). This award will support her on wearable EMG sensors to study fundamental mechanisms involved in neuromuscular disorders and support targeted rehabilitation strategies.
The Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Engineering Research Career Development Program (IREK12) in Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences (MRS) recruits and trains scholars with engineering and other quantitative backgrounds to become successful rehabilitation scientists in basic, translational and/or clinical research. To read more about the program: https://irek12.org
Welcome summer students!
We are very excited to welcome to the 6 new students who will be joining the Vitale Lab team for the summer.
Placid Unegbu has just completed his Master’s degree in Bioengineering at Penn and will be working on closed-loop control of electrodes for neural recording and optogentic stimulation. Gari Eberly (rising junior in Biomedical Engineering Bucknell University) and Tessa Posey (rising senior in Bimedical Engineering at the University of South Carolina) from the Singh Center REU program, Nancy Rodriguez-Perez (rising junior in Civil Engineering at ASU) from the REU SUNFEST Program, and Quincy Hendricks (rising sophomore in Bioengineering at Penn) will be working on microfabrication and characterization of our neural electrodes. Campbell Parker (rising junior in in Bioengineering at Penn) will be working on optimizing our film casting setup.
This will be a busy and super productive summer in the Vitale Lab!
Our paper on MXene neuroelectronics is accepted in ACS Nano!
Nicki’s paper on high-resolution neural electrodes based on MXene has been accepted for publication in ACS Nano. The paper describes the first example of neural interfaces from MXene, a 2D nanomaterial recently discovered by Prof. Gogotsi and his team at Drexel. Specifically, we show a novel microfabrication process to fabricate neural recording electrodes from MXene and we extensively characterize them in vitro and in vivo. Compared to conventional electrode materials, like metals, MXene neural electrodes have significant less impedance which translates in higher signal-to-noise ratio. Furthermore, they can detect neural spiking activity that is “invisible” on the higher impedance electrodes. In the paper, we also show that our MXene-based devices are flexible, that they can easily conform to the curved surface of the brain, and that are compatible to neuronal growth and proliferation in vitro.
Congratulations Nicki!
To read more: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.8b06014