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Latchable microfluidic valve arrays based on shape memory polymer actuators

We report arrays of latching microfluidic valves based on shape memory polymers (SMPs), and show their applications as reagent mixers and as peristaltic pumps. The valve design takes advantage of the SMP's multiple stable shapes and over a hundred-fold sti ...

2019

Large Array of Shape Memory Polymer Actuators for Haptics and Microfluidics

Nadine Besse

My thesis advances the field of shape memory polymer (SMP) actuators by providing a versatile strategy to arbitrarily reconfigure large arrays of densely packed latching soft actuators. It exploits two key intrinsic characteristics of SMPs, which are their ...

EPFL2018

Device having a plurality of latching micro-actuators and method of operating the same

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Nadine Besse, Juan José Zarate

An actuator device including a plurality of transducer actuators, and a common pneumatic actuation mechanism for shaping the plurality of transducer actuators, wherein each actuator of the plurality of transducer actuators includes a shape memory polymer m ...

2018

Flexible Zinc-Tin Oxide Thin Film Transistors Operating at 1 kV for Integrated Switching of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators Arrays

Danick Briand, Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Alexandre Poulin, Alexis Pierre Henri Marette, Nadine Besse

Flexible high-voltage thin- lm transistors (HVTFTs) operating at more than 1 kV are integrated with compliant dielectric elastomer actuators (DEA) to create a exible array of 16 independent actuators. To allow for high-voltage operation, the HVTFT implemen ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

Flexible Active Skin: Large Reconfigurable Arrays of Individually Addressed Shape Memory Polymer Actuators

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Nadine Besse, Juan José Zarate

A high-resolution flexible active skin with a matrix of 32x24 individually addressable tactile pixels on a 4 mm pitch is reported, based on shape memory polymer (SMP) actuators. The intrinsic multistable nature of SMPs, and their more than hundred-fold var ...

Wiley2017

Understanding Graphics on a Scalable Latching Assistive Haptic Display Using a Shape Memory Polymer Membrane

Herbert Shea, Nadine Besse, Samuel Rosset, Juan José Zarate

2017

Multifunctional shape memory electrodes for dielectric elastomer actuators enabling high holding force and low-voltage multisegment addressing

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Nadine Besse, David James McCoul

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are an attractive form of electromechanical transducer, possessing high energy densities, an efficient design, mechanical flexibility, high speed, and noiseless operation. They have been incorporated into a variety of ...

Institute of Physics2016