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Integration of hybrid material systems in conformable neural interfaces

Neural interfaces are devices that are implanted into the body and interface electrically with the central (CNS) or peripheral nervous system. They are inserted surgically for short periods of time or chronically to diagnose or treat several neural disease ...

EPFL2020

Mechanistic Investigations of Nickamine-catalyzed Hydrosilylation of Alkenes: Nickel Nanoparticles Are the Active Species

Xile Hu, Marten Leendert Ploeger

Hydrosilylation is an important chemical process for the synthesis of organosilanes and for the production of silicone polymers. The wide variety of catalysts developed for this reaction generally follow a Chalk-Harrod, or a sigma-bond metathesis mechanism ...

SWISS CHEMICAL SOC2020

Design of High Permittivity Polysiloxane Elastomers for Dielectric Elastomer Transducers

Philip Horst Caspari

Dielectric elastomer transducers consist of a dielectric elastomer between two compliant electrodes. When the elastic capacitor is electrically charged, the dielectric elastomer elongates until a balance of elastic and electrostatic force is reached. Elect ...

EPFL2019

Synthesis of solvent-free processable and on-demand cross-linkable dielectric elastomers for actuators

Frank Nüesch

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) have gained growing interest during the last decade from both the scientific community and industry. However, the high operating voltages needed to drive these actuators reduce their application potential. To date, sev ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

Thin Hydrogel-Elastomer Multilayer Encapsulation for Soft Electronics

Stéphanie Lacour, Aaron Powers Gerratt, Jennifer Mary Adrienne Alice Macron

In the exciting race to design and engineer biointegrated and body-like electronic systems, many efforts concentrate on the integration of hydrogels in electronic assemblies. The versatility of hydrogels chemistry combined with their tissue-mimicking prope ...

Wiley2019

Electronic dura mater soft, multimodal neural interfaces : technology, integration and implementation to surface implants

Arthur Edouard Hirsch

Neuroprosthetic devices are engineered to study, support or replace impaired functions of the nervous system. The neural interface is an essential element of neuroprosthetic systems as it allows for transduction of signals and stimuli of desired functions ...

EPFL2018

High Permittivity Silicones for Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

Simon Johannes Dünki

Many technical advances of modern society sprout from the creation of specially customized polymer materials exhibiting unique combinations of properties uncharted so far. Amid this plurality of highly versatile materials, the class of electroactive polyme ...

EPFL2017

Inkjet 3D printing of UV and thermal cure silicone elastomers for dielectric elastomer actuators

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Samuel Schlatter, David James McCoul

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are an attractive form of electromechanical transducer, possessing high energy densities, an efficient design, mechanical compliance, high speed, and noiseless operation. They have been incorporated into a wide variety ...

Institute of Physics2017

High-cycle electromechanical aging of dielectric elastomer actuators with carbon-based electrodes

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Samuel Schlatter, Christine Anne de Saint-Aubin

We present high-cycle aging tests of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEAs) based on silicone elastomers, reporting on the time-evolution of actuation strain and of electrode resistance over millions of cycles. We compare several types of carbon-based elect ...

Institute of Physics2017

Stretchable metallization technologies for skin-like transducers

Hadrien Olivier Michaud

The skin is not only the largest human organ, capable of accomplishing distributed and multimodal sensing functions. Replicating the versatility of skin artificially is a significant challenge, not only in terms of signal processing but also in mechanics. ...

EPFL2017

Soft Pneumatic Gelatin Actuator for Edible Robotics

Dario Floreano, Jamie Paik, Jun Shintake, Harshal Arun Sonar, Yegor Piskarev

We present a fully edible pneumatic actuator based on gelatin-glycerol material. The actuator is monolithic, fabricated via a molding process, and measures 90 mm in length, 20 mm in width, and 17 mm in thickness. Thanks to the material mechanical character ...

2017