Dr Christopher Chapman

Christopher Chapman
PhD, MIMMM, MIPEM

Lecturer in Bioengineering
Outreach and Recruitment Lead of 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

solid heart iconPublications of specific relevance to the Centre for Bioengineering

2024

Relevant Publication3D printed electro-responsive system with programmable drug release
Alkahtani ME, Sun S, Chapman CAR, Gaisford S, Orlu M, Elbadawi M and Basit AW
Materials Today Advances, Elsevier vol. 23 
01-08-2024
Relevant PublicationPolymer Bioelectronics: A Solution for Both Stimulating and Recording Electrodes
Cuttaz EA, Bailey ZK, Chapman CAR, Goding JA and Green RA
Advanced Healthcare Materials, Wiley vol. 13 (24) 
31-05-2024
Relevant PublicationSurgical identification of brain tumour margins through impedance monitoring and electrocorticography and the potential for their combined use: A systematic review
Georgiannakis A, Chapman CAR and Paraskevopoulos D
Neurosurgical Review, Springer Nature vol. 47 (1) 
01-01-2024

2023

Relevant PublicationControlled electroactive release from solid-state conductive elastomer electrodes
Chapman CAR, Fernandez-Patel S, Jahan N, Cuttaz EA, Novikov A, Goding JA and Green RA
Materials Today Bio, Elsevier vol. 23 
28-11-2023
Relevant PublicationElectroactive Polymers for On‐Demand Drug Release
Alkahtani ME, Elbadawi M, Chapman CAR, Green RA, Gaisford S, Orlu M and Basit AW
Advanced Healthcare Materials, Wiley vol. 13 (3) 
12-11-2023
Relevant PublicationSurface electromyography using dry polymeric electrodes
Steenbergen 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
Apl Bioengineering, Aip Publishing vol. 7 (3) 
01-09-2023
Relevant PublicationA Pilot In Vivo Study of Flexible Fully Polymeric Nerve Cuff Electrodes*
Cuttaz EA, Syed O, Chapman CAR, Goding JA, Bailey ZK, Portillo-Lara R and Green RA
2023 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC). vol. 00, 1-4.  
01-07-2023

2022

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

2021

Relevant PublicationFlexible Networks of Patterned Conducting Polymer Nanowires for Fully Polymeric Bioelectronics
Chapman CAR, Cuttaz EA, Tahirbegi B, Novikov A, Petkos K, Koutsoftidis S, Drakakis EM, Goding JA and Green RA
Advanced Nanobiomed Research, Wiley vol. 2 (3) 
04-12-2021
Relevant PublicationFlexible Nanowire Conductive Elastomers for Applications in Fully Polymeric Bioelectronic Devices *
Cuttaz EA, Chapman CAR, Goding JA, Vallejo-Giraldo C, Syed O and Green RA
2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC). vol. 00, 5872-5875.  
01-11-2021
Relevant PublicationMind the gap: State-of-the-art technologies and applications for EEG-based brain–computer interfaces
Portillo-Lara R, Tahirbegi B, Chapman CAR, Goding JA and Green RA
Apl Bioengineering, Aip Publishing vol. 5 (3) 
20-07-2021
Relevant PublicationStretchable, Fully Polymeric Electrode Arrays for Peripheral Nerve Stimulation
Cuttaz EA, Chapman CAR, Syed O, Goding JA and Green RA
Advanced Science, Wiley vol. 8 (8) 
05-02-2021
Relevant PublicationModel-based geometrical optimisation and in vivo validation of a spatially selective multielectrode cuff array for vagus nerve neuromodulation
Aristovich K, Donega M, Fjordbakk C, Tarotin I, Chapman CAR, Viscasillas J, Stathopoulou T-R, Crawford A, Chew D, Perkins J and Holder D
Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Elsevier vol. 352 
28-01-2021

2020

Relevant PublicationStretchable bioelectronics: Mitigating the challenges of the percolation threshold in conductive elastomers
Novikov A, Goding J, Chapman C, Cuttaz E and Green RA
Apl Materials, Aip Publishing vol. 8 (10) 
01-10-2020
Relevant PublicationActively controlled local drug delivery using conductive polymer-based devices
Chapman CAR, Cuttaz EA, Goding JA and Green RA
Applied Physics Letters, Aip Publishing vol. 116 (1) 
03-01-2020
Relevant Publication3D Cell Culture Systems for the Development of Neural Interfaces
Syed O, Chapman C, Vallejo-Giraldo C, Genta M, Goding J, Kanelos E and Green R
In Neural Interface Engineering, Springer Nature 201-236.  
01-01-2020

2019

Relevant PublicationOptimisation of bioimpedance measurements of neuronal activity with an ex vivo preparation of Cancer pagurus peripheral nerves
Chapman CAR, Smith TM, Kelly M, Avery J, Rouanet T, Aristovich K, Chew DJ and Holder DS
Journal of Neuroscience Methods, Elsevier vol. 327 
13-08-2019
Relevant PublicationOptimal frequency range for electrical impedance tomography of neural activity in peripheral nerve
Hope J, Aristovich K, Chapman C, Vanholsbeeck F and McDaid A
2019 9th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER). vol. 00, 332-335.  
23-03-2019
Relevant PublicationExtracting impedance changes from a frequency multiplexed signal during neural activity in sciatic nerve of rat: preliminary study in vitro
Hope J, Aristovich K, Chapman CAR, Volschenk A, Vanholsbeeck F and McDaid A
Physiological Measurement, Iop Publishing vol. 40 (3) 
01-03-2019

2018

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

2017

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

2016

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

2015

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

2013

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

Grants

solid heart iconGrants of specific relevance to the Centre for Bioengineering
solid heart iconCustomizable conducting elastomers for bioelectronics sensors
Christopher Chapman
£20,000 Royal Society
01-10-2024 - 30-09-2025