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Edible Soft Actuators based on Konjac Glucomannan for Underwater Operation

Dario Floreano, Bokeon Kwak, Markéta Pankhurst, Jun Shintake, Ryo Kanno

Soft robots are being increasingly developed and deployed for underwater applications such as exploration, monitoring, and rescue owing to their innate compliance, mechanical and chemical stability, and waterproof properties. However, they are still predom ...

2024

A comprehensive review on geomembrane systems application in hydropower

Giovanni De Cesare, Samuel Luke Vorlet

Geomembrane systems have been used at hydropower plants as rehabilitation and mitigation technology for several decades and are now used worldwide. In the context of planning an energy transition that promotes the sustainable use of water resources for ene ...

2024

Small, fast and tough: an overview of our silicone-based actuators

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset

At the Microsystems for Space Technologies Laboratory, EPFL, we design and manufacture miniaturised silicone-based dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs). We love silicone, because even though the achievable strain is generally smaller than what you can get ...

2014

Model and design of dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Jun Shintake

Fixing a prestretched dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) on a flexible frame allows transformation of the intrinsic in-plane area expansion of DEAs into complex three-dimensional (3D) structures whose shape is determined by a configuration that minimizes ...

Institute of Physics2014

Pump it up

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Luc Maffli

We report on the use of zipping actuation applied to dielectric elastomer actuators to microfabricate mm-sized pumps. The zipping actuators presented here use electrostatic attraction to deform an elastomeric membrane by pulling it into contact with a rigi ...

SPIE2012

MULTI-ANALYTE DETECTION FOR BIOLOGICAL FLUIDS Towards Continous Monitoring of Glucose, Ionized Calcium and pH using a Viscometric Affinity Biosensor

Peter Ryser, Eric Meurville, Christophe Boss, Frédéric Schmitt, Pablo Dosil Rosende

We present a viscometric affinity biosensor that can potentially allow continuous multi-analyte monitoring in biological fluids like blood or plasma. The sensing principle is based on the detection of viscosity changes of a polymeric solution which has a s ...

SciTePress2011

Towards more efficient structures with composite UHPFRC-concrete construction

Eugen Brühwiler, Emmanuel Denarié

The extremely low permeability of Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concretes (UHPFRC) associated to their outstanding mechanical properties make them especially suitable to locally "harden" reinforced concrete structures in critical zones subjected ...

2006

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