How to Use electrode in a Sentence

electrode

noun
Definition of electrodenext
  • The pedestal is wired to electrodes that rest on the surface of the brain.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The electrode is then attached to a piece of nanofiber made up of ... deep breath ...
    — Drew Turney, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Today, the electrodes can be placed externally, on the forehead or the surface of the scalp.
    — Time, 26 June 2023
  • The procedure uses an electrode that heats the nerves in the facet joints of the back, stopping pain conduction.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The quarter-size chip implant has dozens of tiny threadlike electrodes.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The most common device used in BCI research, the Utah array, records from 100 electrodes.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 30 Jan. 2024
  • To make the light-emitting qualities work, the researchers had to create an electrode that wouldn’t block light.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 27 June 2022
  • That’s because CIs today come with only around 20 electrodes, and each connects to a single nerve cell in the cochlea.
    — Annalee Newitz, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
  • The device, called Telepathy, is about the size of a quarter and was inserted with hundreds of wires and electrodes just under the skull.
    — Parmy Olson, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2024
  • The electrodes send pulses to the nerves that trick the brain into turning off or weakening pain signals.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 16 May 2023
  • Imagine a person walking around with an electrode in their brain.
    — Alex Ossola, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The authors found that the error rate decreased as more channels — or electrodes reading the brain’s signals — were added.
    — Daniel Gilbert, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The array had six spiral arms that maximized its surface area and thus the number of electrodes in contact with the brain.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2023
  • The electrode that would face the outside of a building is a plastic film coated with a grid of gold nanowires, a single layer of graphene, and some platinum.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Feb. 2023
  • For the trial, scientists implanted electrodes along the surface of the spinal cord that look like strands of spaghetti.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN, 20 Feb. 2023
  • For this approach to work, the source and drain electrodes are made separately from the gate and have to be dropped into place afterward.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The most common brain chip used, the Utah array, is a bed of 100 silicon needles, each with an electrode at the tip that sticks into the brain tissue.
    — Emily Mullin, Wired, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Scientists used to have to place electrodes directly on the periosteum—the inner layer of the scalp—to pick up brain waves.
    — Time, 26 June 2023
  • The two sides, called electrodes, hold charges — a negative one called an anode, and a positive one called a cathode.
    — Robert D. McFadden, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2023
  • The patients, who had volunteered for research, had electrodes placed onto the surface of their brain.
    — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The electrodes send a signal to the diaphragm for every breath, typically between 12 and 20 breaths per minute.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 25 July 2023

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