Csaba Forro

I believe that the adoption of technology and dissemination of scientific results depend strongly on the use of open solutions and not expensive, licensed software. I hope to have demonstrated their power here. Once the framework is user-friendly, it will be on Github (soon).

We had to make sure that the mechanical strain created by the mesh unfolding under its weight and the organoid pushing on the mesh was minimal. This was simulated with non-linear shell elements using @fenicsproject and interactively inspected with @Blender 's powerful UI.

Building additional functionalities on top of phidl, electrodes can automatically get routed to the contact pads of the device. When exploring many potential complex designs, automated routing is crucial to cut down on iteration time.

The design and optimization of the KiriE mesh relies on fully open and free software. For complex, fast and iterative design, the 'phidl' python package (github.com/amccaugh/phidl) was used in combination with Jupyter Notebooks for interactive visualization.

Glad to share our preprint on Kirigami-inspired electronics to interface human brain organoids : biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… This was large interdisciplinary effort with my co-author @XiaoYang63 and other colleagues in the labs of @Sergiu_P_Pasca and @BianxiaoC