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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Neural Eng. 2011 Nov 2;8(6):066011. doi: 10.1088/1741-2560/8/6/066011

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Materials bilaterally implanted in rodent cortex. a) Microscopic picture of PVAc-NC polymer nanocomposite implant, 3mm in length, 200μm wide, 100μm thick. b) Microscopic picture of PVAc-coated tungsten wire. The tungsten wire is 50μm in diameter before coating. The diameter after coating is ~160μm. Light white lines outline the wire within the PVAc coating. c–e) SEM images of implants. c) SEM image of pressed side of PVAc-NC implant. d) SEM image showing cut side of PVAc-NC implant that is rough. The image also shows the pressed side of the PVAc-NC implant at the bottom of the image. Inset, a higher magnification SEM image shows the cellulose whiskers on the cut side of the PVAc-NC implant. e) SEM image of the PVAc-coated tungsten wire.