Nicolas Alba

Publications

N. A. Alba , K. Catt, Y. Du, T. K. Kozai, and X. T. Cui, "Release of Dexamethasone from MWCNT-doped PEDOT-coated Microwire Electrode Arrays", in preparation

X. Luo, C. Matranga, S. Tan, N. Alba , and X. T. Cui, "Carbon nanotube nanoreservoir for controlled release of anti-inflammatory dexamethasone", Biomaterials , vol. 32(26), pp. 6316-6323, 2011

N. A. Alba , R. Sclabassi, M. Sun, X. T. Cui, "Novel Hydrogel-Based Preparation-Free EEG Electrode," IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 18(4), pp. 415-423, 2010

W. Liao, B. A. Randall, N. A. Alba , X. T. Cui, "Conducting Polymer-based Impedimetric Aptamer Biosensor for in situ Detection," Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry, vol. 392(5), pp.861-864, 2008

E. A. Ross, W. E. Scott III, A. A. Odukale, N. A. Alba , C. D. Batich, "Transient Acid Exposure Increases Sevelamer HCl Phosphate Binding," J. Pharm. Sci.,vol. 96(8), pp. 2154-2160, 2007

J. C. Sanchez, N. Alba , T. Nishida, C. Batich, and P. R. Carney, "Structural modifications in chronic microwire electrodes for cortical neuroprosthetics: a case study, "IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering , vol. 14(2), pp. 217-221, 2006

Peer-Reviewed Conferences

N. A. Alba , G. Justin, R. Wadhwa, M. Sun, R. J. Sclabassi, X. T. Cui, "Novel Hydrogel and Conducting Polymer-based Skin Surface Electrode Design",Electroactive and Conductive Polymers and Carbon Nanotubes for Biomedical Applications , edited by X.T. Cui, D. Hoffman-Kim, S. Luebben, C.E. Schmidt (Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Volume 1065E, Warrendale, PA, 2007), 1065-QQ03-14

W. Liao, B. Randall, N. Alba , X. T. Cui: Conducting Polymer-based Aptamer Biosensor for in situ Monitoring of Cytokine, in Electroactive and Conductive Polymers and Carbon Nanotubes for Biomedical Applications , edited by X.T. Cui, D. Hoffman-Kim, S. Luebben, C.E. Schmidt (Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Volume 1065E, Warrendale, PA, 2007), 1065-QQ05-05

E. Patrick, M. Ordonez, N. Alba , J. C. Sanchez, and T. Nishida, "Design and Fabrication of a Flexible Substrate Microelectrode Array for Brain Machine Interfaces,"Presented at IEEE International Conference of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society , 2006

Awards/Honors

National Science Foundation AGEP Fellow
National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow

Memberships

Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (Pitt/CMU) testing