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This data set contains the data collected during the FNS project Green Piezo (Grant no. 179064) in association with the recent publication entitled “Printed ecoresorbable temperature sensors for environmental monitoring”. This work aims to study the effect ...

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The physics of 3D printing with light

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3D diffractive optics for linear interconnects and nonlinear processing

3D Printing of Customizable Transient Bioelectronics and Sensors

Room-Temperature Quantum Optomechanics and Free-Electron Quantum Optics

A Cavity-Microscope for Quantum Simulations with Locally-Controllable All-to-All Interactions

Large-Scale Hollow-Core 3D Printing: Variable Cross-Section and Printing Features for Lightweight Plastic Elements

Carbon based printed electrodes for DEAs: study of pad, inkjet, and stencil printing

Localized Ionic Reinforcement of Double Network Granular Hydrogels

Additively manufactured stretchable zipping electrostatic actuators

Photoinduced Second-Order Nonlinearities in Centrosymmetric Media

Multimaterial Volumetric Printing of Silica-Based Glasses

A hybrid Selective Laser Sintering based process for the additive manufacturing of architectured composites

Print-Light-Synthesis of Gold Thin Film Electrodes for Electrochemical Sensing

Printed degradable piezoelectric microsystems: From ink formulation to device fabrication and characterization

Nanoliter Liquid Packaging in a Bioresorbable Microsystem by Additive Manufacturing and its Application as a Controlled Drug Delivery Device

Electrode Impact on the Electrical Breakdown of Dielectric Elastomer Thin Films

Biocompatible and Biodegradable 3D Printing from Bioplastics: A Review

Dataset for 'Printed ecoresorbable temperature sensors for environmental monitoring'

Practical computational imaging by use of spatiotemporal light modulation: from simulations to applications in biological microscopy

Many-body physics with strongly interacting fermions coupled to light

Digital manufacturing of personalised footwear with embedded sensors