Opendata, web and dolomites

eAXON SIGNED

Electronic AXONs: wireless microstimulators based on electronic rectification of epidermically applied currents

Total Cost €

0

EC-Contrib. €

0

Partnership

0

Views

0

 eAXON project word cloud

Explore the words cloud of the eAXON project. It provides you a very rough idea of what is the project "eAXON" about.

cortical    supplied    neurological    operate    skin    minimizing    hindering    stiff    density    nervous    patients    invasiveness    previously    attempts    human    diameter    satisfactory    interfaces    energy    tried    rectifiers    sources    engineering    implantation    microstimulators    individually    innocuous    parts    living    electrodes    significantly    electroceuticals    pieces    bursts    fascinating    sites    flexibility    performed    hamper    tissues    single    electronic    units    electrical    implants    stimulation    match    addressable    nowadays    reduce    suffering    domain    stimulated    inductive    deaf    volume    body    explore    solutions    injury    materials    performing    did    innovative    thread    implanted    batteries    garments    blind    cord    injection    miniaturization    mobile    paralysis    cochlear    central    consists    neighbouring    neuroprosthetic    look    frequency    surgeries    prevented    visual    fifth    solution    too    demanding    channel    spinal    consist    fact    flexible    disorders    shaped    coupling    wireless   

Project "eAXON" data sheet

The following table provides information about the project.

Coordinator
UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA 

Organization address
address: PLACA DE LA MERCE, 10-12
city: BARCELONA
postcode: 8002
website: www.upf.edu

contact info
title: n.a.
name: n.a.
surname: n.a.
function: n.a.
email: n.a.
telephone: n.a.
fax: n.a.

 Coordinator Country Spain [ES]
 Total cost 1˙999˙813 €
 EC max contribution 1˙999˙813 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
 Code Call ERC-2016-COG
 Funding Scheme ERC-COG
 Starting year 2017
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2017-05-01   to  2022-04-30

 Partnership

Take a look of project's partnership.

# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA ES (BARCELONA) coordinator 1˙999˙813.00

Map

 Project objective

To build interfaces between the electronic domain and the human nervous system is one of the most demanding challenges of nowadays engineering. Fascinating developments have already been performed such as visual cortical implants for the blind and cochlear implants for the deaf. Yet implantation of most electrical stimulation systems requires complex surgeries which hamper their use for the development of so-called electroceuticals. More importantly, previously developed systems based on central stimulation units are not adequate for applications in which a large number of sites must be individually stimulated over large and mobile body parts, thus hindering neuroprosthetic solutions for patients suffering paralysis due to spinal cord injury or other neurological disorders. A solution to these challenges could consist in developing addressable single-channel wireless microstimulators which could be implanted with simple procedures such as injection. And, indeed, such solution was proposed and tried in the past. However, previous attempts did not achieve satisfactory success because the developed implants were stiff and too large. Further miniaturization was prevented because of the use of inductive coupling and batteries as energy sources. Here I propose to explore an innovative method for performing electrical stimulation in which the implanted microstimulators will operate as rectifiers of bursts of innocuous high frequency current supplied through skin electrodes shaped as garments. This approach has the potential to reduce the diameter of the implants to one-fifth the diameter of current microstimulators and, more significantly, to allow that most of the implants’ volume consists of materials whose density and flexibility match those of neighbouring living tissues for minimizing invasiveness. In fact, implants based on the proposed method will look like short pieces of flexible thread.

Are you the coordinator (or a participant) of this project? Plaese send me more information about the "EAXON" project.

For instance: the website url (it has not provided by EU-opendata yet), the logo, a more detailed description of the project (in plain text as a rtf file or a word file), some pictures (as picture files, not embedded into any word file), twitter account, linkedin page, etc.

Send me an  email (fabio@fabiodisconzi.com) and I put them in your project's page as son as possible.

Thanks. And then put a link of this page into your project's website.

The information about "EAXON" are provided by the European Opendata Portal: CORDIS opendata.

More projects from the same programme (H2020-EU.1.1.)

ARCTIC (2020)

Air Transport as Information and Computation

Read More  

Growth regulation (2019)

The wide-spread bacterial toxin delivery systems and their role in multicellularity

Read More  

TORYD (2020)

TOpological many-body states with ultracold RYDberg atoms

Read More