Nanotechnology and neurobiology

The following lists are only a very small sampling of what has been written about nano/micro methods in neurobiology. If you have a favorite site you would like added to this list, then email me.

General sites of interest:

• Introduction to MicroEngineering (Danny Banks)
• Microfabrication in Biology and Medicine (Annual Reviews of Biomed. Eng 1999)
• Microdevices in Medicine (Annual Reviews of Biomed. Eng 2000)
• Microfabricated microneedles for gene and drup delivery (Annual Reviews of Biomed. Eng 2000)
• Tokyo-2001: Scanning Probe Microscopy, Sensors and Nanostructures
• Cornell Nanobiotech
• Cornell Nanofabrication Facility
• Stanford Transducers Lab
• The MEMS Group (U. Washington)
• Computational Sensory-Motor Systems ( Johns Hopkins)

Specific neurobiological uses:

• Substrates
  • Microengineering of cellular interactions (Annual Reviews of Biomed. Eng 2000)
  • Synthetic Gel Matrices
  • Microelectronic Control of Biomembranes (S. Boxer, Stanford)
  • Cell Culture in Microchannels ( Mary D.S. Frame, U. Rochester)
• Electrodes
  • NeuroSci poster 2001 (Andrew Spence, Cornell)
  • CNF poster 2001 (Andrew Spence, Cornell)
  • Carbon fiber electrodes (MPB Electrodes, Queen Mary and Westfield College, U. London)
  • Electrode array (Bionic Technology)
  • Hybrid Biosensors, tissue culture electrode array (EE, Integrated Circuits Lab, Stanford University)
  • Multiple Microelectrode Arrays (School of Biomedical Sciences, U. Nottingham Med School)
  • Neural Probes ( Gregory T.A. Kovacs, Stanford University)
  • MEMS probe tips (U. Washington)
    
• Sensors
  • Accelerometers micromachined Si catalever beam.
  • Chemical sensors (Danny Banks)
  • Continuous Electrochemical Detection ( Andrew G. Ewing, Pennsylvania State)
  • Quantum dot color probe (Quantum Dot Corp)
    
• Small instruments and devices
  • carbon nanotube (McEuen Group)
  • carbon nanotube tweezers (10 dec 1999 vol 286 SCIENCE)
  • Gears and transmissions (Sandia) Movie Gallery
  • Gears and mirrors with spidermite for scale (Sandia)
  • Micromirror (Texas Instruments)
  • Miniature Biofuel Cell (Chemical Engineering and the Texas Materials Institute, U. Texas)
  • Nanoscale Levers for muscle measurements ( Gerald Pollack, U. Washington)
• Future devices
  • Carbon nanotube transistors
  • Carbon nanotube computer circuits
  • Quantum dot transistor

   

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