Publications

We develop soft and stretchable fatigue-resistant hydrogel optical fibers that enable optogenetic modulation of peripheral nerves in …

Recording and modulating neural activity in vivo enables investigations of the neurophysiology underlying behavior and disease. …

Progress in understanding brain–viscera interoceptive signaling is hindered by a dearth of implantable devices suitable for probing …

Abstract Broad adoption of magnetic soft robotics is hampered by the sophisticated field paradigms for their manipulation and the …

Weak magnetic fields offer nearly lossless transmission of signals within biological tissue. Magnetic nanomaterials are capable of …

Interactions of charge carriers with lattice vibrations, or phonons, play a critical role in unconventional electronic transport of …

Nerve injuries are common, and the available treatments including invasive surgeries do not guarantee complete regeneration of the …

Immune surveillance of the brain is regulated by resident non-neuronal cells and the blood-brain barrier. 1 Dys-regulation of …

to stressful or traumatic stimuli may alter hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and sympathoadrenal-medullary (SAM) reactivity. …

Scientists around the globe are joining the race to achieve engineering feats to read, write, modulate, and interface with the human …

nervous and immune systems are intimately related in the brain and in the periphery, where changes to one affect the other and …

Electron hydrodynamics arises when momentum-relaxing scattering processes are slow compared to momentum-conserving ones. While the …

A wide range of unconventional transport phenomena has recently been observed in single-crystal delafossite metals. Here, we present a …

Electronic fabrics necessitate both electrical conductivity and, like any textile, elastic recovery. Achieving both requirements on the …

Guided by gut sensory cues, humans and animals prefer nutritive sugars over non-caloric sweeteners, but how the gut steers such …

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has long been used to alleviate symptoms in patients suffering from psychiatric and neurological disorders …

In the presence of interactions, electrons in condensed-matter systems can behave hydrodynamically, exhibiting phenomena associated …

The three-dimensional (3D) local atomic structures and crystal defects at the interfaces of heterostructures control their electronic, …

Interactions of charge carriers with lattice vibrations, or phonons, play a critical role in unconventional electronic transport of …

Thermal drawing has been recently leveraged to yield multifunctional, fiber-based neural probes at near kilometer length scales. …

Despite the critical role played by carbon monoxide (CO) in physiological and pathological signaling events, current approaches to …

Redox cofactors mediate many enzymatic processes and are increasingly employed in biomedical and energy applications. Exploring the …

A wide range of unconventional transport phenomena have recently been observed in single-crystal delafossite metals. Here, we present a …

Fiber drawing enables scalable fabrication of multifunctional flexible fibers that integrate electrical, optical and microfluidic …

Thermal drawing has been recently leveraged to yield multi-functional, fiber-based neural probes at near kilometer length scales. …

Developing tools that are able to monitor transient neurochemical dynamics is important to decipher brain chemistry and function. …

The atomic structure at the interface between two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) materials influences properties such as …

Skeletal muscle has an inherent capacity for spontaneous regeneration. However, recovery after severe injuries such as volumetric …

Multimaterial fibers engineered to integrate glasses, metals, semiconductors, and composites found applications in ubiquitous sensing, …

The development of new tools to interface with the nervous system, empowered by advances in electronics and materials science, has …

Photoswitchable ligands can add an optical switch to a target receptor or signaling cascade and enable reversible control of neural …

Rotational invariance strongly constrains the viscosity tensor of classical fluids. When this symmetry is broken in anisotropic …

Understanding and modulating proton-mediated biochemical processes in living organisms have been impeded by the lack of tools to …

Magnetic nanoparticles have garnered sustained research interest for their promise in biomedical applications including diagnostic …

Understanding the function of nitric oxide, a lipophilic messenger in physiological processes across nervous, cardiovascular and immune …

Machine learning is a valuable tool in the development of chemical technologies but its applications into supramolecular chemistry have …

Magnetic nanomaterials in magnetic fields can serve as versatile transducers for remote interrogation of cell functions. In this study, …

Memories are believed to be encoded by sparse ensembles of neurons in the brain. However, it remains unclear whether there is …

The field of bioelectronic medicines seeks to modulate electrical signaling within peripheral organs, providing temporally precise …

Animals innately prefer caloric sugars over non-caloric sweeteners. Such preference depends on the sugar entering the intestine.1–4 …

Electrical recording permits direct readout of neural activity but offers limited ability to correlate it to the network topography. On …

To mark the 15th anniversary of Nature Methods, we asked scientists from across diverse fields of basic biology research for their …

Despite the ubiquity of applications of heat transport across nanoscale interfaces, including integrated circuits, thermoelectrics, and …

Connecting neural circuit output to behaviour can be facilitated by the precise chemical manipulation of specific cell populations. …

Monitoring and modulating the diversity of signals used by neurons and glia in a closed-loop fashion is necessary to establish …

Artificial muscles may accelerate the development of robotics, haptics, and prosthetics. Although advances in polymer-based actuators …

Microchannel scaffolds accelerate nerve repair by guiding growing neuronal processes across injury sites. Although geometry, materials …

The field of neuromodulation is developing rapidly. Current techniques, however, are still limited as they i) either depend on …

Neurological and psychiatric conditions pose an increasing socioeconomic burden on our aging society. Our ability to understand and …

Electrical intraspinal microstimulation (ISMS) at various sites along the cervical spinal cord permits forelimb muscle activation, …

Objective. Optogenetic modulation of neural activity is a ubiquitous tool for basic investigation of brain circuits. While the majority …

Design principles for the development of silicon biointerfaces enable the non-genetic, light-controlled modulation of intracellular …

In this issue of CONB we highlight recent developments in tools to interrogate neuronal function across species ranging from fruit …

Neuroscience is a broad discipline that embraces technology at multiple scales to understand the brain and to develop potential …

Multifunctional devices for modulation and probing of neuronal activity during free behavior facilitate studies of functions and …

This roadmap outlines the role semiconductor-based materials play in understanding the complex biophysical dynamics at multiple length …

Alternating magnetic fields (AMFs) cause magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) to dissipate heat while leaving surrounding tissue unharmed, a …

Studies of neural pathways that contribute to loss and recovery of function following paralyzing spinal cord injury require devices for …

Optogenetic interrogation of neural pathways relies on delivery of light-sensitive opsins into tissue and subsequent optical …

In the mammalian nervous system, billions of neurons connected by quadrillions of synapses exchange electrical, chemical and mechanical …

Targeted cancer therapies require a precise determination of the underlying biological processes driving tumorigenesis within the …

Claims that magnetic fields can be used to manipulate biological systems contradict some basic laws of physics.

The tools for optically imaging cellular potassium concentrations in real-time are currently limited to a small set of molecular …

Synthetic neural scaffolds hold promise to eventually replace nerve autografts for tissue repair following peripheral nerve injury. …

From magnetic resonance imaging to cancer hyperthermia and wireless control of cell signaling, ferrite nanoparticles produced by …

Since its introduction in 2005, optogenetics1 has become a go-to tool for deciphering neural pathways and identifying the contributions …

Hysteretic heat dissipation by magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) in alternating magnetic fields (AMFs) allows these materials to act as …

Remote measurement and manipulation of biological systems can be achieved using magnetic techniques, but a missing link is the …

Amputation of damaged tissue is one of the oldest surgical techniques, reaching prevalence in the 16th century (1). Improved emergency …

What if expression of a light-sensitive protein could be triggered wirelessly, on demand? What if optogenetics and neuropharmacology …

Remotely triggered hysteretic heat dissipation by magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) selectively attached to targeted proteins can be used …

Due to the limited regenerative ability of neural tissue, a diverse set of biochemical and biophysical cues for increasing nerve growth …

Wireless deep brain stimulation of well-defined neuronal populations could facilitate the study of intact brain circuits and the …

Brain function depends on simultaneous electrical, chemical and mechanical signaling at the cellular level. This multiplicity has …

Restoration of motor and sensory functions in paralyzed patients requires the development of tools for simultaneous recording and …

Social interaction is a complex behavior essential for many species and is impaired in major neuropsychiatric disorders. …

With the rapid rise in technology for the precision detection and modulation of electrical signalling patterns in the nervous system, a …

Selective hysteretic heating of multiple collocated types of single domain magnetic nanoparticles (SDMNPs) by alternating magnetic …

The brain is a large network of interconnected neurons where each cell functions as a nonlinear processing element. Unraveling the …

The effect of electrical stimulation on neuronal membrane potential is frequency dependent. Low frequency electrical stimulation can …

This article develops a set of design guidelines for maximizing heat dissipation characteristics of magnetic ferrite MFe2O4 (M = Mn, …

Introduction: There is no therapeutic approach that provides precise and rapidly reversible inhibition of motor nerve and muscle …

Optical methods for manipulation of cellular function have enabled deconstruction of genetic and neural circuits in vitro and in vivo. …

Recent advances in optogenetics have improved the precision with which defined circuit elements can be controlled optically in freely …

Quantum dot light emitting devices (QD‐LEDs) con‐sist of a monolayer of QDs sandwiched between a hole transporting layer (HTL) and …

Cholinergic neurons are widespread, and pharmacological modulation of acetylcholine receptors affects numerous brain processes, but …

The degree of interpenetration at the interface between colloidal quantum dots (QDs) and organic semiconductor molecules commonly …

We use a scanning tunneling microscope to probe single-electron charging phenomena in individual CdSe/ZnS (core/shell) quantum dots …

We demonstrate efficient Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) from a thin film of phosphorescent dye, fac tris(2-phenylpyridine) …

Improvements in quantum dot light-emitting device (QD-LED) performance are achieved by the choice of organic charge transporting …

We demonstrate a solvent-free contact printing process for deposition of patterned and unpatterned colloidal quantum dot (QD) thin …

We investigate the mechanism of operation of hybrid organic/colloidal quantum dot light emitting devices (QD-LEDs). Novel quantum dot …

We demonstrate light emitting devices (LEDs) with a broad spectral emission generated by electroluminescence from a mixed-monolayer of …

Green to the core : Cdx Zn1−x Se alloy core nanocrystals are synthesized and overcoated with Cdy Zn1−y S to create core–shell …

We demonstrate exciton energy transfer from a thin film of phosphorescent dye fac tris(2-phenylpyridine) iridium (Ir(ppy)3) to a …

Size-controlled spectral tunability and chemical flexibility make semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) attractive as nanoscale building …