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. 2018 Sep 24;9(10):486. doi: 10.3390/mi9100486

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Ex vivo Characterization of coating stability. Dip-coated probes inside the skull with all tissue removed captured using optical microscopy (A) and SEM (B) showing that the SMP coating of the silicon shanks is still intact after two weeks. (C) Side-view SEM image of a dip-coated probe, explanted after 16 weeks in the rat cortex, showing the SMP coating intact. Black rectangle inset is blown up further in (D).