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Multimaterial Shape Memory Polymer Fibers for Advanced Drug Release Applications

Fabien Sorin, Pierre-Luc Eloi Piveteau, Stella Andréa Françoise Laperrousaz, Hritwick Banerjee, Chaoqun Dong

Stimuli-responsive polymers offer unprecedented control over drug release in implantable delivery systems. Shape memory polymer fibers (SMPFs), with their large specific surface area and programmable properties, present promising alternatives for triggerab ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Thermally Drawn Shape and Stiffness Programmable Fibers for Medical Devices

Fabien Sorin, Andreas Leber

Despite the significant advantages of Shape Memory Polymers (SMPs), material processing and production challenges have limited their applications. Recent advances in fiber manufacturing offer a novel approach to processing polymers, broadening the function ...

2025

Soft Multi-Material Magnetic Fibers and Textiles with Integrated Sensing for Assisting Rehabilitation and Soft Orthoses*

Fabien Sorin, Stella Andréa Françoise Laperrousaz, Hritwick Banerjee

Soft mechanical sensors and actuators have revolutionized fields such as health monitoring, human-machine interaction, and soft robotics. However, existing fabrication methods, including 3D printing, molding and casting, lithography, and particle flow spin ...

IEEE2025

Melt-extruded light-responsive amphibious liquid crystal elastomer fibers with reprogrammable actuation modes

Fabien Sorin

Untethered liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) fiber actuators are promising candidates for soft actuators due to their analogies to biological muscles. However, most LCE fiber actuators are difficult to (re)program and primarily only work in air, which signifi ...

2025

Thermally drawn multi-material fibers: From fundamental research to industrial applications

Xin Chen, Fabien Sorin, Stella Andréa Françoise Laperrousaz, Hritwick Banerjee

2024

Microfluidic wet spinning of soft polydimethylsiloxane polymer optical fibers

Fabien Sorin

Polymer optical fibers (POFs) are an essential component of photonic textile sensors for the development of healthcare@home technologies. However, fabricating tailored POFs exhibiting the required properties for such applications remains challenging. Here, ...

2024

A method

Fabien Sorin, Andreas Leber

A method of manufacturing a fibre comprising a lined channel, using a draw apparatus, the method comprising: providing a preform, comprising a channel extending through the preform, to the draw apparatus; feeding a liner into the channel; heating a portion ...

2024

The Development of Aptamer-Coupled Microelectrode Fiber Sensors (apta-?FS) for Highly Selective Neurochemical Sensing

Fabien Sorin

The selective and sensitive sensing of neurochemicals is essential to decipher in-brain chemistry underlying brain pathophysiology. The recent development of flexible and multifunctional polymer-based fibers has been shown useful in recording and modulatin ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Polydimethylsiloxane based soft polymer optical fibers: From the processing-property relationship to pressure sensing applications

Fabien Sorin, Khushdeep Sharma, René M. Rossi

Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) based soft polymer optical fibers (POFs) have recently demonstrated their intriguing potential for different sensing applications like strain or temperature sensing. Recent studies have elaborated on the sensing capability of PD ...

2023

Soft Multimaterial Magnetic Fibers and Textiles

Fabien Sorin, Stella Andréa Françoise Laperrousaz, Hritwick Banerjee, Andreas Leber, Chaoqun Dong, Rémi Andréa La Polla, Syrine Mansour, Xue Wan

Magnetically responsive soft materials are promising building blocks for the next generation of soft robotics, prosthesis, surgical tools, and smart textiles. To date, however, the fabrication of highly integrated magnetic fibers with extreme aspect ratios ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023