For the first time, scientists have succeeded in artificially mimicking the ion signaling of heart muscle cells. To succeed, researchers at LiU have used organic electronics based on conductive plastics.

“There’s a reason why nature has endowed cardiac muscle cells with this particular type of electrical signaling. We do not merely want to mimic the biology, but also to harness the principles that make these signals so effective,” says Simone Fabiano, Professor of Materials Science at Linköping University.