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Impedance Characterization and Modeling of Subcellular to Micro-sized Electrodes with Varying Materials and PEDOT:PSS Coating for Bioelectrical Interfaces

Journal

ACS APPLIED ELECTRONIC MATERIALS
Volume 3, Issue 12, Pages 5226-5239

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsaelm.1c00687

Keywords

impedance; electrode-electrolyte interface; PEDOT:PSS; subcellular; microelectrodes; biomedical recording

Funding

  1. National Science Foundation [CAREER 1454555, ECCS: CCSS 1610677]
  2. Office of Naval Research [N00014-16-1-2534, N00014-17-1-2457]
  3. National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship - Department of Defense [F-7863984656]

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This paper presents a systematic analysis of the interfacial electrochemical impedance spectroscopy of electrodes with different biocompatible materials. The study found that PEDOT:PSS-coated electrodes significantly reduce interfacial impedance at 1 kHz, making them promising candidates for bioelectrical interfaces with subcellular spatial resolution.
Electrode-to-cell/tissue interfaces with high biocompatibility, low impedance, and long-term chemical and mechanical stability are of paramount importance in numerous biological and biomedical applications. For meticulous monitoring of biological parameters, there is a rapidly growing interest in sensing at subcellular levels with radically improved spatiotemporal resolution, which necessitates ultra-miniaturized electrodes with significant reduction in electrode contact sizes. Such aggressive electrode downsizing inevitably impacts the electrochemical interfaces, with the consequences still poorly understood. This paper reports the first systematic analysis of the interfacial electrochemical impedance spectroscopy of electrodes comprising a variety of biocompatible electrode materials consisting of gold (Au), platinum (Pt), indium tin oxide, and titanium nitride (TiN) coated with/ without an organic polymer, poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS), with electrode diameters (D) ranging from millimeter to subcellular (<10 mu m) dimensions. PEDOT:PSS-coated electrodes have greater Faradaic charge-transfer capability and capacitive coupling compared to their uncoated counterparts. At D = 10-200 mu m, the PEDOT:PSS coating reduces the electrode interfacial impedance at 1 kHz by up to x10(1.6), while at D > 200 mu m, the effect is lessened due to the dominance of solution, or bulk electrolyte, and routing resistance. The low interfacial impedance of PEDOT:PSS-coated electrodes makes them promising candidates for next-generation bioelectrical interfaces with subcellular spatial resolution.

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