Bioinspired Soft Robot with Incorporated Microelectrodes

Ting Wang; Bianca Migliori; Beatrice Miccoli; Su Ryon Shin

doi:10.3791/60717

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Bioinspired Soft Robot with Incorporated Microelectrodes

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JoVE Journal Bioengineering

Bioinspired Soft Robot with Incorporated Microelectrodes

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08:24 min

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February 28, 2020

DOI:

10.3791/60717-v

DOI:

10.3791/60717-v

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08:24 min

February 28, 2020

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Ting Wang^1,2, Bianca Migliori^1,3, Beatrice Miccoli^1,4, Su Ryon Shin¹

¹Division of Engineering in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital,Harvard Medical School ²School of Medicine,Jiangsu University ³Tech4Health and Neuroscience Institutes,NYU Langone Health ⁴Department of Electronics and Telecommunication,Politecnico di Torino

Summary

A bioinspired scaffold is fabricated by a soft photolithography technique using mechanically robust and electrically conductive hydrogels. The micropatterned hydrogels provide directional cardiomyocyte cell alignment, resulting in a tailored direction of actuation. Flexible microelectrodes are also integrated into the scaffold to bring electrical controllability for a self-actuating cardiac tissue.