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Flexible Neural Probes with Optical Artifact-Suppressing Modification and Biofriendly Polypeptide Coating

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The advent of optogenetics provides a well-targeted tool to manipulate neurons because of its high time resolution and cell-type specificity. Recently, closed-loop neural manipulation techniques consisting of optical stimulation and… Click to show full abstract

The advent of optogenetics provides a well-targeted tool to manipulate neurons because of its high time resolution and cell-type specificity. Recently, closed-loop neural manipulation techniques consisting of optical stimulation and electrical recording have been widely used. However, metal microelectrodes exposed to light radiation could generate photoelectric noise, thus causing loss or distortion of neural signal in recording channels. Meanwhile, the biocompatibility of neural probes remains to be improved. Here, five kinds of neural interface materials are deposited on flexible polyimide-based neural probes and illuminated with a series of blue laser pulses to study their electrochemical performance and photoelectric noises for single-unit recording. The results show that the modifications can not only improve the electrochemical performance, but can also reduce the photoelectric artifacts. In particular, the double-layer composite consisting of platinum-black and conductive polymer has the best comprehensive performance. Thus, a layer of polypeptide is deposited on the entire surface of the double-layer modified neural probes to further improve their biocompatibility. The results show that the biocompatible polypeptide coating has little effect on the electrochemical performance of the neural probe, and it may serve as a drug carrier due to its special micromorphology.

Keywords: electrochemical performance; polypeptide coating; neural probes; flexible neural; probes optical

Journal Title: Micromachines
Year Published: 2022

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