ArticleAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2025
Electroanalysis and electrophysiological recording of bio-doped conducting polymer-modified neural electrodes.
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- Electrophysiological Recording With Activated Iridium Oxide: Effective Electrode Area, Not Total Impedance, Determines Performance.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Article
- Electroanalysis and electrophysiological recording of bio-doped conducting polymer-modified neural electrodes.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
Electroanalytical methods are used to understand, modify, and control bionic devices. Bionic devices can record or stimulate cells to understand and/or control normal or abnormal biological processes. These devices contain electrodes that transduce electrical current within the electrical circuit into ionic current within a tissue. Despite the similarity between electroanalysis and electrophysiology, there remains a poor understanding of the relationship between the two techniques, including their methodology and theory. This paper investigates the electrochemical and acute electrophysiological recording performance of neural electrodes. A range of behaviors is achieved by modifying electrodes with the conducting polymer poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) doped with chondroitin sulfate, dextran sulfate, or para-toluene sulfonate. The results support previous studies showing that increased electrode area reduced total impedance below the Maxwell-Wagner relaxation frequency and thermal noise while increasing the signal-to-noise ratio and neural spike count. The results allowed novel investigation of relative contributions of biological and electrode properties to electrophysiological performance, with increased electrode area having a larger impact on neural population within recording range rather than reducing thermal noise. The utility of measuring electrode impedance for predicting electrophysiological performance is mainly for an indirect measure of electrode area. The results provide insight into noise sources from electrophysiological recordings and limitations in cable theory in neuroscience.
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