Docket #: S02-139
The Stanford/NASA Vision Chip
Applications
- The Chip is targeted for treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), or other degenerative diseases of the retina.
Advantages
- Readily integrated into silicon microcucuitry
- Durability
- Mechanical strength
- CNT is flexible, thereby causing less damage to tissue
- Biocompatibility - less immune response, inflammation, etc.
- Ease of engineering and manufacture
- Low cost
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