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MEMS Team had its representatives at the 22nd International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers 2023) held in in Kyoto, Japan. 

Ali Maziz had a poster presentation, while Ilona Lecerf and Aleksandra Marković gave oral presentations.

The EMAPS Cardio consortium has gathered in the beautiful city of Porto to discuss the project achievements made over the last few months. The meeting was hosted by partner BIOFABICS - 3D BIOTISSUE ANALOGUES. Eight international partners from across Europe have gathered for exchange, discussions and planning of the next steps in the project.

MEMS team outing!

Members of the team have spent two days in Créaloux, Lot. 

Clément Cointe has successfully defended his PhD thesis titled: "Électrodes implantables à base de biomatériaux résorbables pour la cartographie de l'activité électrique du cerveau". Congratulations!

Venkata Suresh Vajrala's work was published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics: 
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0956566323001240?via%3Dihub

A need exists for developing new technological solutions for obtaining highly selective and stealthy electrodes that provide reliable neural integration and maintain neuronal viability. The paper reports a novel Hollow Ring-like type electrode to sense and/or stimulate neural activity from three-dimensional neural networks. Due to its unique design, the ring electrode architecture enables easy and reliable access of the electrode to three-dimensional neural networks with reduced pressure on the biological tissue, while providing improved electrical interface with  neural cells.

Refik Yilmaz's work was published in the ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces: 
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsami.2c17835#

The development of a cost-efficient braille device is a crucial challenge in haptic technology to improve the integration of visually impaired people. This paper reports a development of a soft actuator based on a thermosensitive gel as well as a single-pin braille setup where the actuation is performed thanks to a temperature control of a microporous gel cylinder. 

Aleksandra Marković has received the Best Poster Award at the 21^st International Conference on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications (PowerMEMS 2022) which took place in Salt Lake City, Utah (USA) from December 12^th to 15^th 2022.

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MEMS team members visit LiMMS Tokyo for initiating new collaboration. Christian Bergaud, Vincent Mansard and Ali Mazis were welcomed by Dr. Salles, Kim Sensei and other host professors of LiMMS - the International Research Institution on MEMS and NEMS during one week when they discussed potential collaborations. 

Welcome Jeanne Perrussel to our team!

Jeanne joined MEMS team as a PhD student and will be working on neural probes for brain recording and stimulation.

Constandina Arvantis has joined our team as a permanent researcher. Welcome! 

To overcome the challenges associated with the complexity of in vivo systems,  Dina has embarked on the development of organoid platforms to enable systemic approaches to model crosstalk between the nervous system and the heart. Her long term goals include the development of the first real-time system to study the impact of modulating the frequency of low-magnitude mechanical stimulation on neuronal activity.

Venkata Suresh Vajrala presented his work at MRS spring meeting in Hawaii!

Ilona Lecerf's work has been published in the EPJ ST: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjs/s11734-022-00577-8

José Elias Angulo Cervera's article has been published in Journal of Materials Chemistry C:  https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2022/TC/D2TC01162J

Lucien Schwab's work was recently published in Microsystems & Nanoengineering: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41378-022-00364-4

Clément Cointe published an article on ultrathin flexible neural probes based on silk-parylene bilayer: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41378-022-00353-7

Check out the work done by Venkata Suresh Vajrala published in Frontiers in Biengineering and Biotechnology: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2021.780197/full

Congratulations to Aarushee Rangra on her Ph.D. degree!