Novel Advances in Microsystems Technologies and Their Applications

19	Bionanotechnological Advances in Neural Recording and Stimulation Alper Bozkurt and C. McConnell

19.1    Introduction

19.2    Carbon Nanotubes

19.3    Conductive Polymer Nanotubes and Nanofibres

19.4    Polymer Nanofibres and Ultrathin Films

19.5    Functionalized Nanoparticles

19 6    Field-Effect Transistors and Silicon Nanowires

19.7    Nanobiophotonic Methods (Optogenetics and Nano-Neurosurgery)

19.8    Conclusion

References

19.1  INTRODUCTION

Our understanding of how neurons code and communicate information and how they function in networks is bound by the limitations of the physical connections that we make with the neural tissue. The current set of tools and techniques commercially available to interface with neural tissue do not ...