Publications by Laura Ferlauto

Transient Neurovascular Interface for Minimally Invasive Neural Recording and Stimulation

Philippe Reymond, Diego Ghezzi, Laura Ferlauto, Adele Fanelli, Elodie Geneviève Zollinger

Neural interfaces are used to mitigate the burden of traumatic injuries, neurodegenerative diseases, and mental disorders. However, the transient or permanent placement of an interface in close contact with the neural tissue requires invasive surgery, pote ...

Wiley2021

All-polymeric transient neural probe for prolonged in-vivo electrophysiological recordings

Diego Ghezzi, Paola Vagni, Laura Ferlauto, Adele Fanelli, Elodie Geneviève Zollinger

Transient bioelectronics has grown fast, opening possibilities never thought before. In medicine, transient implantable devices are interesting because they could eliminate the risks related to surgical retrieval and reduce the chronic foreign body reactio ...

2021

All-Printed Electrocorticography Array for In Vivo Neural Recordings

Fabian Michael Lütolf, Diego Ghezzi, Eleonora Borda, Laura Ferlauto, Nenad Marjanovic

Bioelectronic and neuroprosthetic interfaces rely on implanted microelectrode arrays (MEAs) to interact with the human body. Printing techniques, such as inkjet and screen printing, are attractive methods for the manufacturing of MEAs because they allow fl ...

2020

Photovoltaic organic interface for neuronal stimulation in the near-infrared

Naïg Aurelia Ludmilla Chenais, Marta Jole Ildelfonsa Airaghi Leccardi, Diego Ghezzi, Laura Ferlauto, Elodie Geneviève Zollinger

Organic materials, such as conjugated polymers, are attractive building blocks for bioelectronic interfaces. In particular, organic semiconductors show excellent performance in light-mediated excitation and silencing of neuronal cells and tissues. However, ...

2020

Development and Characterization of PEDOT:PSS/Alginate Soft Microelectrodes for Application in Neuroprosthetics

Marc Olivier Heuschkel, Flavio Maurizio Mor, Estelle Annick Cuttaz, Marta Jole Ildelfonsa Airaghi Leccardi, Diego Ghezzi, Paola Vagni, Laura Ferlauto

Reducing the mechanical mismatch between the stiffness of a neural implant and the softness of the neural tissue is still an open challenge in neuroprosthetics. The emergence of conductive hydrogels in the last few years has considerably widened the spectr ...

2018

Design and validation of a foldable and photovoltaic wide-field epiretinal prosthesis

Kevin Sivula, Naïg Aurelia Ludmilla Chenais, Samuel Charles Antoine Gilliéron, Marta Jole Ildelfonsa Airaghi Leccardi, Diego Ghezzi, Michele Bevilacqua, Paola Vagni, Laura Ferlauto

Retinal prostheses have been developed to fight blindness in people affected by outer retinal layer dystrophies. To date, few hundred patients have received a retinal implant. Inspired by intraocular lenses, we have designed a foldable and photovoltaic wid ...

Nature Research2018

Polymer-based optoelectronic interface and methods for its manufacture

Marta Jole Ildelfonsa Airaghi Leccardi, Diego Ghezzi, Laura Ferlauto

A polymer-based optoelectronic interface comprises an elastomeric substrate (10) and a plurality of discrete photovoltaic pixel elements (20) disposed on top of the substrate. Each pixel element comprises at least one active layer comprising a semiconducti ...

2018

High, Anisotropic, and Substrate-Independent Mobility in Polymer Field-Effect Transistors Based on Preassembled Semiconducting Nanofibrils

Laura Ferlauto, Marc-Antoine Stoeckel

Achieving nanoscale control over the crystalline structure and morphology of electroactive polymer films and the possibility to transfer them onto any solid substrate are important tasks for the fabrication of highperformance organic/polymeric field-effect ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017