Publications by Stella Andréa Françoise Laperrousaz

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

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

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

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

2024

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

Thermally Drawn Elastomer Nanocomposites for Soft Mechanical Sensors

Fabien Sorin, Stella Andréa Françoise Laperrousaz, Yunpeng Qu, Andreas Leber, Chaoqun Dong, Inès Richard

Stretchable and conductive nanocomposites are emerging as important constituents of soft mechanical sensors for health monitoring, human-machine interactions, and soft robotics. However, tuning the materials' properties and sensor structures to the targete ...

WILEY2023

Highly Integrated Multi-Material Fibers for Soft Robotics

Fabien Sorin, Stella Andréa Françoise Laperrousaz, Hritwick Banerjee, Andreas Leber, Chaoqun Dong, Nicola Bartolomei, Bastien Schyrr

Soft robots are envisioned as the next generation of safe biomedical devices in minimally invasive procedures. Yet, the difficulty of processing soft materials currently limits the size, aspect-ratio, manufacturing throughput, as well as, the design comple ...

WILEY2022

3D stretchable and self-encapsulated multimaterial triboelectric fibers

Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis, Fabien Sorin, Stella Andréa Françoise Laperrousaz, Hritwick Banerjee, Andreas Leber, Chaoqun Dong, Dong Yan

A robust power device for wearable technologies and soft electronics must feature good encapsulation, high deformability, and reliable electrical outputs. Despite substantial progress in materials and architectures for two-dimensional (2D) planar power con ...

2022

Functionalized Fiber Reinforced Composites via Thermally Drawn Multifunctional Fiber Sensors

Véronique Michaud, Fabien Sorin, William Nicolas Duncan Esposito, Stella Andréa Françoise Laperrousaz, Baris Çaglar, Dang Tùng Nguyen

Monitoring fiber reinforced polymer composites (FRPC) during their production and operation is becoming crucial to track the performance of the final parts and optimize the overall life cycle. The challenges associated with integrating multifunctional sens ...

Wiley2021