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Progress in Mechanical Modeling of Implantable Flexible Neural Probes

Xiaoli You^1,2,3,, Ruiyu Bai^1,2,3,4,, Kai Xue^1,2,3, Zimo Zhang^1,2,3, Minghao Wang⁵, Xuanqi Wang^1,2,3, Jiahao Wang^1,2,3, Jinku Guo^1,2, Qiang Shen³, Honglong Chang³, Xu Long^6,*, Bowen Ji^1,2,3,*

1 Unmanned System Research Institute, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, China
2 National Key Laboratory of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, China
3 Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Systems for Aerospace, School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, China
4 School of Automobile, Chang’an University, Xi’an, 710018, China
5 MOE Engineering Research Center of Smart Microsensors and Microsystems, College of Electronics and Information, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, 310018, China
6 School of Mechanics, Civil Engineering and Architecture, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710129, China

* Corresponding Authors: Xu Long. Email: ; Bowen Ji. Email: