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A Sprayable Electrically Conductive Edible Coating for Piezoresistive Strain Sensing

Dario Floreano, Bokeon Kwak, Pietro Rossi

Edible electronics leverages the electronic properties of food-derived materials to deliver safer technologies that can be degraded (or digested) in the environment (or body) at the end-of-life. Sensors will be central to future smart edible robots, and ed ...

2023

Adaptive Self-Sealing Suction-Based Soft Robotic Gripper

Metin Sitti, Sukho Song

While suction cups prevail as common gripping tools for a wide range of real-world parts and surfaces, they often fail to seal the contact interface when engaging with irregular shapes and textured surfaces. In this work, the authors propose a suction-base ...

WILEY2021

Implementation of Functional Microfluidic Dispensing Tools Enabling Enhanced Control in Extrusion Bioprinting

Ludovic Serex

Inspired from additive manufacturing's success, the structuring of biocompatible materials through bioprinting has become a growing field of research in the past fifteen years. It opened the door to a plethora of applications ranging from the fabrication o ...

EPFL2019

Mechanics of a pressure-controlled adhesive membrane for soft robotic gripping on curved surfaces

Jamie Paik, Metin Sitti, Sukho Song

This paper aims at understanding the adhesion mechanics of a pressure-controlled adhesive thin elastomeric membrane for soft robotic gripping on non-planar, curved surfaces. The adhesive elastic membrane is lined with gecko-inspired microfiber arrays and c ...

2019

Printing materials and technologies in the 15th−17th century book production: an undervalued research field

Giovanni Colavizza, Fauzia Albertin

We present a systematic non-invasive investigation of a large corpus of early printed books, exploiting multiple techniques. This work is part of a broader project -- Argeia -- aiming to study early printing technologies, their evolution and, potentially, ...

Elsevier2018

3D Printing and Supercritical Foaming of Hierarchical Cellular Materials

Matteo Gregorio Modesto Marascio

Hierarchical porous structures have been gathering interest in different fields owing to their unique properties associated with their multi-scale features. The observation of natural materials brought new insights into the functionality of cellular materi ...

EPFL2018

Printing wax to create scaffolds for tissue engineering applications

Christopher Chi Wai Tse

In a space of 2–3 hours, the desired pattern could be created with computer-assisted design, printed and have cells seeded onto the scaffold, which could reduce the cycle time of prototyping micropattern designs. Human dermal fibroblasts and RN22 Schwann c ...

2017

Study of Microfluidic Mixing and Droplet Generation for 3D Printing of Nuclear Fuels

Internal gelation and 3D printing processes were proposed to combine in a process that is promising to produce nuclear fuels with simplified production route and enhanced in-core performance [1]. The process relies on in-situ mixing of feed solutions that ...

EPFL2017

Complex light in 3D printing

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Paul Delrot, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Edgar Emilio Morales Delgado

3D printing as a tool to generate complicated shapes from CAD files, on demand, with different materials from plastics to metals, is shortening product development cycles, enabling new design possibilities and can provide a mean to manufacture small volume ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016

Base models for color halftone reproduction

Roger Hersch, Mathieu Hébert

One of the main challenges for the characterization of printing systems consists, for a given substrate, in establishing the relationship between surface coverages of the selected set of inks and the spectral reflectances of the printed ink halftones. Know ...

2015

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