Dr Christopher Chapman

Christopher Chapman
PhD, MIMMM, MIPEM

Lecturer in Bioengineering
Outreach and Recruitment Lead for The Centre for Bioengineering

School of Engineering and Materials Science
Queen Mary University of London
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Research

Bioelectronics, Implanted devices, Cancer neuroscience, Conductive polymers, Electrical stimulation + recording, Laser-based fabrication

Interests

Bioelectronics design and fabrication for central nervous system and peripheral nervous system targets. Expertise in using both metals and conducting polymers to create soft and flexible bioelectronic implants via laser-based and traditional microfabrication.

Publications

Relevant PublicationPublications of specific relevance to the Centre for Bioengineering

2024

Relevant PublicationAlkahtani ME, Sun S, Chapman CAR, Gaisford S, Orlu M, Elbadawi M and Basit AW (2024). 3D printed electro-responsive system with programmable drug release. Materials Today Advances, Elsevier vol. 23 
01-08-2024
Relevant PublicationCuttaz EA, Bailey ZK, Chapman CAR, Goding JA and Green RA (2024). Polymer Bioelectronics: A Solution for Both Stimulating and Recording Electrodes. Advanced Healthcare Materials, Wiley vol. 13 (24) 
31-05-2024

2023

Relevant PublicationChapman CAR, Fernandez-Patel S, Jahan N, Cuttaz EA, Novikov A, Goding JA and Green RA (2023). Controlled electroactive release from solid-state conductive elastomer electrodes. Materials Today Bio, Elsevier vol. 23 
28-11-2023
Relevant PublicationAlkahtani ME, Elbadawi M, Chapman CAR, Green RA, Gaisford S, Orlu M and Basit AW (2023). Electroactive Polymers for On‐Demand Drug Release. Advanced Healthcare Materials, Wiley vol. 13 (3) 
12-11-2023
Relevant PublicationSteenbergen N, Busha I, Morgan A, Mattathil C, Pinto AL, Spyridakos F, Sokolovskiy I, Tahirbegi B, Chapman C, Cuttaz E, Litvinova K, Goding J and Green R (2023). Surface electromyography using dry polymeric electrodes. APL Bioengineering, AIP Publishing vol. 7 (3) 
01-09-2023
Relevant PublicationCuttaz EA, Syed O, Chapman CAR, Goding JA, Bailey ZK, Portillo-Lara R and Green RA (2023). A Pilot In Vivo Study of Flexible Fully Polymeric Nerve Cuff Electrodes*. 2023 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC)
01-07-2023

2022

Relevant PublicationRapeaux A, Syed O, Cuttaz E, Chapman CAR, Green RA and Constandinou TG (2022). Preparation of Rat Sciatic Nerve for Ex Vivo Neurophysiology. Journal of Visualized Experiments, MyJove (185) 
12-07-2022
Relevant PublicationRapeaux A, Syed O, Cuttaz E, Chapman CAR, Green RA and Constandinou TG (2022). Preparation of Rat Sciatic Nerve for Ex Vivo Neurophysiology. Journal of Visualized Experiments, MyJove (185) 
12-07-2022

2021

Relevant PublicationChapman CAR, Cuttaz EA, Tahirbegi B, Novikov A, Petkos K, Koutsoftidis S, Drakakis EM, Goding JA and Green RA (2021). Flexible Networks of Patterned Conducting Polymer Nanowires for Fully Polymeric Bioelectronics. Advanced NanoBiomed Research, Wiley vol. 2 (3) 
04-12-2021
Relevant PublicationCuttaz EA, Chapman CAR, Goding JA, Vallejo-Giraldo C, Syed O and Green RA (2021). Flexible Nanowire Conductive Elastomers for Applications in Fully Polymeric Bioelectronic Devices *. 2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC)
01-11-2021
Relevant PublicationPortillo-Lara R, Tahirbegi B, Chapman CAR, Goding JA and Green RA (2021). Mind the gap: State-of-the-art technologies and applications for EEG-based brain–computer interfaces. APL Bioengineering, AIP Publishing vol. 5 (3) 
20-07-2021
Relevant PublicationCuttaz EA, Chapman CAR, Syed O, Goding JA and Green RA (2021). Stretchable, Fully Polymeric Electrode Arrays for Peripheral Nerve Stimulation. Advanced Science, Wiley vol. 8 (8) 
05-02-2021
Relevant PublicationAristovich K, Donega M, Fjordbakk C, Tarotin I, Chapman CAR, Viscasillas J, Stathopoulou T-R, Crawford A, Chew D, Perkins J and Holder D (2021). Model-based geometrical optimisation and in vivo validation of a spatially selective multielectrode cuff array for vagus nerve neuromodulation. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Elsevier vol. 352 
28-01-2021

2020

Relevant PublicationNovikov A, Goding J, Chapman C, Cuttaz E and Green RA (2020). Stretchable bioelectronics: Mitigating the challenges of the percolation threshold in conductive elastomers. APL Materials, AIP Publishing vol. 8 (10) 
01-10-2020
Relevant PublicationChapman CAR, Cuttaz EA, Goding JA and Green RA (2020). Actively controlled local drug delivery using conductive polymer-based devices. Applied Physics Letters, AIP Publishing vol. 116 (1) 
03-01-2020
Relevant PublicationSyed O, Chapman C, Vallejo-Giraldo C, Genta M, Goding J, Kanelos E and Green R (2020). 3D Cell Culture Systems for the Development of Neural Interfaces. Neural Interface Engineering  201-236.  
01-01-2020

2019

Relevant PublicationChapman CAR, Smith TM, Kelly M, Avery J, Rouanet T, Aristovich K, Chew DJ and Holder DS (2019). Optimisation of bioimpedance measurements of neuronal activity with an ex vivo preparation of Cancer pagurus peripheral nerves. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Elsevier vol. 327 
13-08-2019
Relevant PublicationHope J, Aristovich K, Chapman C, Vanholsbeeck F and McDaid A (2019). Optimal frequency range for electrical impedance tomography of neural activity in peripheral nerve. 2019 9th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER)
23-03-2019
Relevant PublicationHope J, Aristovich K, Chapman CAR, Volschenk A, Vanholsbeeck F and McDaid A (2019). Extracting impedance changes from a frequency multiplexed signal during neural activity in sciatic nerve of rat: preliminary study in vitro. Physiological Measurement, IOP Publishing vol. 40 (3) 
01-03-2019

2018

Relevant PublicationChapman CAR, Aristovich K, Donega M, Fjordbakk CT, Stathopoulou T-R, Viscasillas J, Avery J, Perkins JD and Holder D (2018). Electrode fabrication and interface optimization for imaging of evoked peripheral nervous system activity with electrical impedance tomography (EIT). Journal of Neural Engineering, IOP Publishing vol. 16 (1) 
16-11-2018

2017

Relevant PublicationChapman CAR, Goshi N and Seker E (2017). Multifunctional Neural Interfaces for Closed‐Loop Control of Neural Activity. Advanced Functional Materials, Wiley vol. 28 (12) 
28-08-2017
Relevant PublicationChapman CAR, Zhu X, Chen H, Yanik AA, Lein PJ and Seker E (2017). Nanostructure Introduces Artifacts in Quantitative Immunofluorescence by Influencing Fluorophore Intensity. Scientific Reports, Springer Nature vol. 7 (1) 
27-03-2017
Relevant PublicationChapman CAR, Wang L, Chen H, Garrison J, Lein PJ and Seker E (2017). Neural Interfaces: Nanoporous Gold Biointerfaces: Modifying Nanostructure to Control Neural Cell Coverage and Enhance Electrophysiological Recording Performance (Adv. Funct. Mater. 3/2017). Advanced Functional Materials, Wiley vol. 27 (3) 
01-01-2017

2016

Relevant PublicationChapman CAR, Wang L, Chen H, Garrison J, Lein PJ and Seker E (2016). Nanoporous Gold Biointerfaces: Modifying Nanostructure to Control Neural Cell Coverage and Enhance Electrophysiological Recording Performance. Advanced Functional Materials, Wiley vol. 27 (3) 
12-12-2016
Relevant PublicationChapman CAR, Chen H, Stamou M, Lein PJ and Seker E (2016). Mechanisms of Reduced Astrocyte Surface Coverage in Cortical Neuron-Glia Co-cultures on Nanoporous Gold Surfaces. Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, Springer Nature vol. 9 (3), 433-442.  
31-05-2016
Relevant PublicationChapman CAR, Ly S, Wang L, Seker E and Matthews MJ (2016). Utilizing dynamic laser speckle to probe nanoscale morphology evolution in nanoporous gold thin films. Optics Express, Optica Publishing Group vol. 24 (5), 5323-5333.  
02-03-2016
Relevant PublicationChapman CAR, Wang L, Biener J, Seker E, Biener MM and Matthews MJ (2016). Engineering on-chip nanoporous gold material libraries via precision photothermal treatment. Nanoscale, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) vol. 8 (2), 785-795.  
01-01-2016
Relevant PublicationChapman CAR, Daggumati P, Gott SC, Rao MP and Seker E (2016). Substrate topography guides pore morphology evolution in nanoporous gold thin films. Scripta Materialia, Elsevier vol. 110, 33-36.  
01-01-2016

2015

Relevant PublicationChapman CAR, Chen H, Stamou M, Biener J, Biener MM, Lein PJ and Seker E (2015). Nanoporous Gold as a Neural Interface Coating: Effects of Topography, Surface Chemistry, and Feature Size. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, American Chemical Society (ACS) vol. 7 (13), 7093-7100.  
02-03-2015

2013

Relevant PublicationDaggumati P, Kurtulus O, Chapman CAR, Dimlioglu D and Seker E (2013). Microfabrication of nanoporous gold patterns for cell-material interaction studies. Journal of Visualized Experiments, MyJove (77) 
15-07-2013
Relevant PublicationDaggumati P, Kurtulus O, Chapman CAR, Dimlioglu D and Seker E (2013). Microfabrication of Nanoporous Gold Patterns for Cell-material Interaction Studies. Journal of Visualized Experiments, MyJove (77) 
15-07-2013

Grants

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bullet iconCustomizable conducting elastomers for bioelectronics sensors
Christopher Chapman
£20,000 Royal Society (01-10-2024 - 30-09-2025)