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View article: Low-voltage wearable tactile display with thermo-pneumatic actuation
Low-voltage wearable tactile display with thermo-pneumatic actuation Open
Tactile displays often face challenges like high power consumption, bulky control systems, and limited portability, hindering their application in wearable technologies. This work presents a novel thermo-pneumatic tactile display that oper…
View article: High‐Resolution Self‐Assembly of Functional Materials and Microscale Devices via Selective Plasma Induced Surface Energy Programming
High‐Resolution Self‐Assembly of Functional Materials and Microscale Devices via Selective Plasma Induced Surface Energy Programming Open
Current technologies preclude effective and efficient self‐assembly of heterogeneous arrangements of functional materials between 10 −1 and 10 −5 m. Consequently, their fabrication is dominated by methods of direct material manipulation, w…
View article: Dual‐Material Aerosol Jet Printing of Magneto‐Responsive Polymers with In‐Process Tailorable Composition for Small‐Scale Soft Robotics
Dual‐Material Aerosol Jet Printing of Magneto‐Responsive Polymers with In‐Process Tailorable Composition for Small‐Scale Soft Robotics Open
The opportunity to create magneto‐responsive soft materials (MSMs) with in‐process tailorable and locally controllable magnetic properties is highly desirable across many technological and biomedical applications. In this paper, this capab…
View article: Stable, Conductive, Adhesive Polymer Patterning Inside a Microfluidic Chamber for Endothelial Cell Alignment
Stable, Conductive, Adhesive Polymer Patterning Inside a Microfluidic Chamber for Endothelial Cell Alignment Open
Endothelial cells (ECs) line the inner walls of blood vessels, respond to shear stress by elongating in the direction of flow. Engineering aligned ECs in vitro is essential for modeling human vascular diseases and for drug testing. Current…
View article: Aerosol Jet Printing of Strain Sensors for Soft Robotics
Aerosol Jet Printing of Strain Sensors for Soft Robotics Open
The field of soft robotics is rapidly progressing toward applications including; wearable electronics, prosthetics, and biomedical devices. This is leading to demand for flexible, embedded high‐performance strain sensors to deliver real‐ti…
View article: Optimization and fabrication of programmable domains for soft magnetic robots: A review
Optimization and fabrication of programmable domains for soft magnetic robots: A review Open
Driven by the aim of realizing functional robotic systems at the milli- and submillimetre scale for biomedical applications, the area of magnetically driven soft devices has received significant recent attention. This has resulted in a new…
View article: Digitally Driven Aerosol Jet Printing to Enable Customisable Neuronal Guidance
Digitally Driven Aerosol Jet Printing to Enable Customisable Neuronal Guidance Open
Digitally driven manufacturing technologies such as aerosol jet printing (AJP) can make a significant contribution to enabling new capabilities in the field of tissue engineering disease modeling and drug screening. AJP is an emerging non-…
View article: Ultraconformable, Self‐Adhering Surface Electrodes for Measuring Electrical Signals in Plants
Ultraconformable, Self‐Adhering Surface Electrodes for Measuring Electrical Signals in Plants Open
The electrical signals in plant's physiological processes are of great interest in biology, biohybrid robotics, and sensors for interfacing the living organisms with an electronic readout and control. This paper reports on the application …
View article: Toward the Use of Temporary Tattoo Electrodes for Impedancemetric Respiration Monitoring and Other Electrophysiological Recordings on Skin
Toward the Use of Temporary Tattoo Electrodes for Impedancemetric Respiration Monitoring and Other Electrophysiological Recordings on Skin Open
The development of dry, ultra-conformable and unperceivable temporary tattoo electrodes (TTEs), based on the ink-jet printing of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) on top of commercially available temporary …
View article: A plant-inspired robot with soft differential bending capabilities
A plant-inspired robot with soft differential bending capabilities Open
We present the design and development of a plant-inspired robot, named Plantoid, with sensorized robotic roots. Natural roots have a multi-sensing capability and show a soft bending behaviour to follow or escape from various environmental …
View article: Back Cover: Plasma Process. Polym. 12∕2016
Back Cover: Plasma Process. Polym. 12∕2016 Open
Back Cover: PE-CVD allows a versatile approach to the fabrication of free-standing nanofilms (NFs). Here, different plasma-deposited NFs are presented, of possible biomedical applications: with non fouling properties, or embedding an antib…
View article: Synthesis of free-standing bio-functional nanofilms by plasma assisted technology
Synthesis of free-standing bio-functional nanofilms by plasma assisted technology Open
Event Abstract Back to Event Synthesis of free-standing bio-functional nanofilms by plasma assisted technology Daniela Pignatelli1, 2, Eloisa Sardella3, Fabio Palumbo3, Roberto Gristina3, Silvia Taccola1, Francesco Greco1, Virgilio Mattoli…
View article: Toward a New Generation of Electrically Controllable Hygromorphic Soft Actuators
Toward a New Generation of Electrically Controllable Hygromorphic Soft Actuators Open
An innovative processing strategy for fabricating soft structures that possess electric- and humidity-driven active/passive actuation capabilities along with touch- and humidity-sensing properties is reported. The intrinsically multifuncti…