Publications
Selected work
Neural interfaces and scalable recording
- 2022jULIEs: nanostructured polytrodes for low traumatic extracellular recordings and stimulation in the mammalian brain
Rácz RR, Kollo M, Rácz G, Bulz C, Ackels T, Warner T, Wray W, Kiskin N, Chen C, Ye Z, de Hoz L, Rancz E, Schaefer AT. Journal of Neural Engineering 19(1):016041.
Micrometre-scale, electrochemically modified electrodes for extracellular recording and stimulation, with experimental assessment of recording performance and local tissue effects.
- 2020CHIME: CMOS-hosted in vivo microelectrodes for massively scalable neuronal recordings
Kollo M, Rácz RR, Hanna M-E, et al.. Frontiers in Neuroscience 14:834.
A modular approach connecting three-dimensional microwire interfaces with CMOS electronics for scalable in vivo neural recording.
- 2020Massively parallel microwire arrays integrated with CMOS chips for neural recording
Obaid A, Hanna M-E, Wu Y-W, Kollo M, Rácz R, et al.. Science Advances 6(12):eaay2789.
Integration of microwire bundles with large-scale microelectrode arrays, demonstrated in experimental preparations including recordings from awake, moving mice.
Experimental neurophysiology
- 2017Agrp neuron activity is required for alcohol-induced overeating
Cains S, Blomeley C, Kollo M, Rácz R, Burdakov D. Nature Communications 8:14014.
An experimental study linking AgRP-neuron activity with alcohol-induced changes in feeding behaviour.
Electrochemistry and materials
- 2013Electrolytic recovery of Mn3O4 and Zn from sulphuric acid leach liquors of spent zinc–carbon–MnO2 battery powder
Rácz R, Ilea P. Hydrometallurgy 139:116–123.
A laboratory electrochemical route that recovers manganese oxide and zinc metal simultaneously from spent zinc–carbon battery material, using a divided membrane cell.
Patents
- 2022Visual implant
Romeo-Robert Rácz, Gabriella Rácz, Andreas Schaefer. US 11,318,299 B2, granted 3 May 2022.
- 2020Electrochemical probe
Romeo-Robert Rácz, Mihaly Kollo, Andreas Schaefer. US 10,768,139 B2, granted 8 September 2020.