How to Use electrode in a Sentence

electrode

noun
  • Each cell in the stack has a membrane that separates its two electrodes.
    Kat Friedrich, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2024
  • But there’s still a lot of work to be done to make that possible without electrodes implanted in the brain.
    Fortune, 30 July 2019
  • To allow movement, the fins are made of flexible electrodes and a soft silicone skin.
    Emily Toomey, Smithsonian, 19 June 2019
  • Or it can be done awake in a doctor’s office, using electrodes on the neck and a special needle with electrodes as guides.
    Lisa Rapaport, EverydayHealth.com, 12 Sep. 2024
  • These threads would be implanted inside a human brain, with the goal of electrodes relaying brain signals to an outside device.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2019
  • This electrode array is FDA-cleared for temporary neural recording.
    Jennifer Collinger, The Conversation, 19 July 2019
  • During brain surgery, electrodes were temporarily placed over portions of participants’ brains to detect activity for about a week’s time.
    Fortune, 30 July 2019
  • To adapt ionic wind to flight, the MIT researchers mounted pairs of electrodes under the wings of a drone, where propellers normally go.
    Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2019
  • Three epilepsy patients who were about to have neurosurgery for their condition all had a tiny patch of electrodes placed directly on the brain for a week to map the origins of their seizures, the researchers state in their study.
    Fox News, 31 July 2019
  • BrainGate relied on the Utah Array, a series of stiff needles that allows for up to 128 electrode channels.
    Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 17 July 2019
  • The study includes three epilepsy patients voluntarily implanted with electrodes.
    Rachel Metz, CNN, 30 July 2019
  • The pedestal is wired to electrodes that rest on the surface of the brain.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2023
  • When a neuron in the organoids fired, one of the electrodes would light up.
    New York Times, 29 Aug. 2019
  • The lead with the electrode at the end goes from the chest under the skin behind the ear and the skull into the brain.
    Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The electrode is then attached to a piece of nanofiber made up of ... deep breath ...
    Drew Turney, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The Changsha group decided to move the electrode to one end of the tube.
    IEEE Spectrum, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The solid would bear the loads and the liquid would help ions move between the electrodes.
    Daniel Oberhaus, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2023
  • Switch on the electrode next door, and a second dot will appear next to the first one.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The electrodes measure whether the brain is responding to the sounds.
    WIRED, 20 Oct. 2023
  • As for the other cell electrode, the anode, today most of them are made of graphite.
    John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Guards strapped him down, placed a black hood over his face and attached electrodes to his head and right leg.
    Tribune Media Services, al, 5 Jan. 2020
  • The electrons these electrodes give off, meanwhile, pass through the wire outside the cell.
    John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The silicon could be used to control the flow of current across the graphene from one electrode to the other.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Apr. 2022
  • The small, round device implanted in the skull is supposed to keep the thin tendrils of electrodes in place.
    Christina Jewett, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • One of the two polymer films acts as a channel between source and drain electrodes, while the other acts as a gate.
    IEEE Spectrum, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Chevrolet says that the 8 percent increase is thanks to a change in the chemistry of the cell electrodes in the lithium-ion battery.
    Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver, 15 Jan. 2020
  • The electrode sheets are fed through a small machine, like dough wound through a pasta maker.
    Gregory Barber, Wired, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Then the robot knits 1,024 cobweb-thin electrode tendrils into the gray matter of the brain and rests the puck-like device in the hole.
    Cade Metz, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2022
  • To achieve this, Tesla has improved its electrode coating, the process by which the two electrodes are made.
    James Frith, Bloomberg.com, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Today, the electrodes can be placed externally, on the forehead or the surface of the scalp.
    Time, 26 June 2023

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