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In news that could be significant for patients with brain or nerve issues, researchers at Rice University have developed a new material that they say can stimulate neural tissue in a less invasive manner than previous treatments, and also allow nerve signals to flow again despite a severed connection.
"We asked, ‘Can we create a material that can be like dust or is so small that by placing just a sprinkle of it inside the body you’d be able to stimulate the brain or nervous system?’" asked lead researcher Joshua Chen, a Rice doctoral alumnus, in a. "With that question in mind, we thought that magnetoelectric materials were ideal candidates for use in neurostimulation.
"A lot of work went into making this very thin layer of less than 200 nanometers that gives us the really special properties," said Rice University neuroengineer and the study's principal investigator Jacob Robinson in a statement.
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