Optimizing growth and post treatment of diamond for high capacitance neural interfaces

Wei Tong; Kate Fox; Akram Zamani; Ann M Turnley; Kumaravelu Ganesan; Arman Ahnood; Rosemary Cicione; Hamish Meffin; Steven Prawer; Alastair Stacey; David J Garrett

Journal article

Optimizing growth and post treatment of diamond for high capacitance neural interfaces

Wei Tong, Kate Fox, Akram Zamani, Ann M Turnley, Kumaravelu Ganesan, Arman Ahnood, Rosemary Cicione, Hamish Meffin, Steven Prawer, Alastair Stacey, David J Garrett

Biomaterials | ELSEVIER SCI LTD | Published : 2016

DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2016.07.006

University of Melbourne Researchers

Arman Ahnood Author Physics

Steven Prawer Author Physics

Hamish Meffin Author Biomedical Engineering

Wei Tong Author Physics

Alastair Stacey Author Physics

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Awarded by Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA grant

Funding Acknowledgements

The authors wish to acknowledge the facilities and the scientific assistance of the Australian Microscopy & Microanalysis Research Facility at the RMIT Microscopy & Microanalysis Facility at RMIT University, and the Australian Synchrotron. A part of this research was undertaken on the Soft X-ray beamline at the Australian Synchrotron, Victoria, Australia. DJG is supported by an Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA grant DE130100922. This research was supported by the ARC through its Special Research Initiative (SRI) in Bionic Vision Science and Technology grant to Bionic Vision Australia (BVA).