Publications by Rajasundar Chandran

A functional approach towards the design, development, and test of an affordable dynamic prosthetic foot

Joël Cugnoni, Klaus Benedikt Schönenberger, Kamiar Aminian, John Botsis, Véronique Michaud, Mathieu Pascal Falbriard, Rajasundar Chandran

Humanitarian actors involved in physical rehabilitation, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), usually provide their beneficiaries with lower-limb prostheses comprising Solid Ankle Cushion Heel (SACH) feet as these are considered app ...

PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2022

High-efficiency super-elastic liquid metal based triboelectric fibers and textiles

Rajasundar Chandran, Dang Tùng Nguyen, Fabien Sorin, Wei Yan, Nicola Bartolomei, Yunpeng Qu, Marco Volpi, Chaoqun Dong, Andreas Leber

Fibers that harvest mechanical energy via the triboelectric effect are excellent candidates aspower sources for wearable electronics and functional textiles. Thus far however, their fab-rication remains complex, and exhibited performances are below the sta ...

Nature Research2020

Soft and stretchable liquid metal transmission lines as distributed probes of multimodal deformations

Rajasundar Chandran, Fabien Sorin, Nicola Bartolomei, Chaoqun Dong, Andreas Leber

Mechanical sensing represents a key functionality in soft electronics for applications in health monitoring, human–machine interaction, or soft robotics. Current approaches typically rely on intricate networks of sensors specific to one type of deformation ...

2020

Morphology and interfacial strength of nonisothermally fusion bonded hard and soft thermoplastics

Pierre-Etienne Bourban, Rajasundar Chandran

Nonisothermally fusion bonded butt joints were prepared by overmolding thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) onto isotactic polypropylene (iPP) inserts in order to investigate the effect of processing conditions on the bond strength and interfacial microstructur ...

2018

Hybrid Processing of Thermoplastic Based Multimaterials

Rajasundar Chandran

There is a growing interest in exploring novel material combinations and processing technology to manufacture complex 3D shaped polymer and composite structures. In the field of prosthetics and orthotics, this need is significant with additional challenges ...

EPFL2017