{"628182":{"#nid":"628182","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Polymers promise a more flexible artificial retina","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers are investigating a different kind of retinal prosthesis made from semiconductive polymers, a class of carbon-based plastics that can conduct electricity in much the same way that silicon microchips do.These polymers are best known for their use in some types of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays, the richly colored screens found in millions of smartphones. But the materials also show promise for a new generation of cheap, flexible, lightweight solar cells. And they show even more promise as soft, flexible bioelectronic interfaces to living tissue \u0026mdash; \u0026ldquo;one of the emerging and very exciting applications of organic semiconductors,\u0026rdquo; says \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.gatech.edu\/user\/carlos-silva\u0022\u003ECarlos Silva\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, a physicist at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. These applications include drug delivery and biosensors.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2019-10-28 17:42:23","changed_gmt":"2019-10-28 17:42:23","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Chooz nuclear plant","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.knowablemagazine.org\/article\/technology\/2019\/artificial-retina-implants","dateline":{"date":"2019-10-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-10-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"523891":{"id":"523891","type":"image","title":"Carlos Silva","body":null,"created":"1460732400","gmt_created":"2016-04-15 15:00:00","changed":"1475895293","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:53","alt":"Carlos Silva","file":{"fid":"206083","name":"carlos_silva.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/carlos_silva_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/carlos_silva_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":32094,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/carlos_silva_0.jpg?itok=-iGYpNt_"}}},"media_ids":["523891"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"182817","name":"organic conducting polymers for vision"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}