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An electrode is an electrical conductor used to make contact with a nonmetallic part of a circuit (e.g. a semiconductor, an electrolyte or a vacuum). The word was coined by the scientist Michael Faraday from the Greek words elektron (meaning amber, from which the word electricity is derived) and hodos, a way.

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Carbon Nanotube-Coated Electrodes Improve Brain Readouts

Carbon Nanotube-Coated Electrodes Improve Brain Readouts

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 12, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (23) | comments 5

A research group has significantly improved the quality of brain-function measurements by coating metal neural electrodes with carbon nanotubes. Their work could potentially allow scientists to learn more ...


CNT Film

Transparent Carbon Nanotube Films Likely Successor to ITO for Commercial Applications

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- Will the legacy of Nobel prize winner Richard Smalley finally be fulfilled? Ever since his pioneering work in the mid 1990's on the synthesis of carbon nanotubes, companies have been struggling ...


Professor Matteo Matteucci (R) and Ph.d student Bernardo Dal Seno (C), wearing a skullcap mounted with electrodes

Thought-propelled wheelchair developed in Italy

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Italian researchers have developed a wheelchair that obeys mental signals sent to a computer, they said Friday.


Self-aligning carbon nanotubes could be key to next generation of devices

Self-aligning carbon nanotubes could be key to next generation of devices

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists and engineers the world over have thought for years that the next generation of smaller, more-efficient electronic and photonic devices could be based on the use of carbon nanotubes, ...


Electroluminescence from Electrolyte-Gated Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors

Electroluminescence from Electrolyte-Gated Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Field-effect transistors (FETs) based on single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) exhibit a range of optoelectronic effects including near-infrared electroluminescence.


Assembled Nanowires

Easy assembly of electronic biological chips

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A handheld, ultra-portable device that can recognize and immediately report on a wide variety of environmental or medical compounds may eventually be possible, using a method that incorporates ...


Using your mood to operate a computer game

Using your mood to operate a computer game

Technology / Other

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Brain Computer Interfaces measure electrical signals from the brain and convert them into data that can be used by a computer. You can move a cursor on your screen, for example, simply by ...


Babies learn music while sleeping

Babies learn music while sleeping

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Early screening and treatment for infants with hearing problems, and the ability to computer-generate musical scores, are two very different possible outcomes of some “off-the-wall” research.


A sound practice: Cochlear implants restore children's hearing

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ava Martin seems less nervous than her parents as the three sit in an audiologist’s office at UC Irvine Medical Center a few days after Labor Day. In August, the 6-year-old had surgery to place a cochlear ...


Motor skill learning may be enhanced by mild brain stimulation

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

People who received a mild electrical current to a motor control area of the brain were significantly better able to learn and perform a complex motor task than those in control groups. The findings could hold promise for ...


Unique nerve-stimulation device proves effective against epilepsy

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Epilepsy is a common medical condition characterized by convulsions and short periods of confusion. It affects more than 50 million people worldwide. But intractable epilepsy, which affects more than 1 million Americans and ...