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Beware of your electrodes! How electrode materials and application processes impact the lifetime of slide-ring-material-based DEAs

For dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) to find more widespread adoption in commercial products, a better understanding of their durability is needed. By determining the different mechanisms contributing to ageing and breakdown in DEAs, new methods for i ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2021

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

Inkjet Printing of Complex Soft Machines with Densely Integrated Electrostatic Actuators

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Samuel Schlatter, Giulio Grasso

A multimaterial inkjet printing method for integrated soft multifunctional machines is reported, combining dense arrays of electrostatic actuators, multilayer electrical routing, and complex networks of microfluidic channels in one printing process. Most a ...

2020

Dimensional scaling of high-speed printed organic transistors enabling high-frequency operation

Vivek Subramanian

Printed electronics has promised to deliver low-cost, large-area and flexible electronics for mass-market applications for some time; however, so far one limiting factor has been device performance. Over the last decade, great progress has been made in ter ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2020

All-Printed Electrocorticography Array for In Vivo Neural Recordings

Diego Ghezzi, Eleonora Borda, Laura Ferlauto, Fabian Michael Lütolf, Nenad Marjanovic

Bioelectronic and neuroprosthetic interfaces rely on implanted microelectrode arrays (MEAs) to interact with the human body. Printing techniques, such as inkjet and screen printing, are attractive methods for the manufacturing of MEAs because they allow fl ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

Inkjet printed mesoscopic perovskite solar cells with custom design capability

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh

Customizable solar cells are required for aesthetic indoor and outdoor photovoltaic deployment as well as for the freedom of design of small and portable power supplies. We demonstrate that drop on demand inkjet printing can be used for the fabrication of ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Microfluidics by Additive Manufacturing for Wearable Biosensors: A Review

Christian Enz, Sandro Carrara, Mahshid Alsadat Padash

Wearable devices are nowadays at the edge-front in both academic research as well as in industry, and several wearable devices have been already introduced in the market. One of the most recent advancements in wearable technologies for biosensing is in the ...

2020

Spontaneously Self-Assembly of a 2D/3D Heterostructure Enhances the Efficiency and Stability in Printed Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Fei Guo, Xuehui Liu, Chaohui Li, Chuan Wang

As perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are highly efficient, demonstration of high-performance printed devices becomes important. 2D/3D heterostructures have recently emerged as an attractive way to relieving the film inhomogeneity and instability in perovskite ...

2020

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

Gravure printed Ag/conductive polymer electrodes and simulation of their electrical properties

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, René Uwe Schneider

In this paper, some practical issues related to the manufacturing, and design criteria related to the application in devices of a hybrid silver grid/poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) semi-transparent electrode are discussed. The electrodes are fabricated b ...

SPRINGER LONDON LTD2019

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