MITICS

​Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) enable the brain to communicate with an external device and vice versa. Some do one or the other, and some both. In medicine, they are helping people with impaired neuromuscular function get their limbs moving. They can also help people use systems other than their own natural ones, or eventually perhaps help us pay better attention at work or stop depressive thoughts. The EU-funded MITICS project will develop innovative organic electronics for healthcare applications using ion transport in transistors and electron transport long-distance. By reducing signal loss and promoting efficient long-range electron movement, scientists will maximise responses to very small signals and foster less invasive BCIs.