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Thermally Drawn Elastomer Nanocomposites for Soft Mechanical Sensors

Inès Richard, Fabien Sorin, Yunpeng Qu, Stella Andréa Françoise Laperrousaz, Chaoqun Dong, Andreas Leber

Stretchable and conductive nanocomposites are emerging as important constituents of soft mechanical sensors for health monitoring, human-machine interactions, and soft robotics. However, tuning the materials' properties and sensor structures to the targete ...

WILEY2023

Thermally Drawn CNT-Based Hybrid Nanocomposite Fiber for Electrochemical Sensing

Inès Richard, Fabien Sorin

Nowadays, bioelectronic devices are evolving from rigid to flexible materials and substrates, among which thermally-drawn-fiber-based bioelectronics represent promising technologies thanks to their inherent flexibility and seamless integration of multi-fun ...

MDPI2022

Unraveling the Influence of Thermal Drawing Parameters on the Microstructure and Thermo-Mechanical Properties of Multimaterial Fibers

Inès Richard, Fabien Sorin, Shahrzad Shadman Yazdi

Multimaterial thermally drawn fibers are becoming important building blocks in several foreseen applications in surgical probes, protective gears, or medical textiles. Here, the influence of the thermal drawing parameters on the degree of polymer chain ori ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Ultimate Feature Sizes in Thermally Drawn Fibers: from Fundamental Analysis to Novel Functional Fibers

Inès Richard

The fiber thermal drawing process has emerged as a simple and scalable technique for the fabrication of multifunctional and flexible electronics. The integration of materials with various physical and functional properties in well-defined architectures ope ...

EPFL2021

Ultralong, complexly structured micro- and nanoscale metallic glasses and fibers

Inès Richard, Grégoire Courtine, Fabien Sorin, Wei Yan

The present invention and its embodiments propose a simple, unique, and scalable method for producing extremely long, highly uniform, and well-ordered micro- and nanoscale metallic glasses via thermal drawing the method comprising at least the steps of pre ...

2020

Microstructured Biodegradable Fibers for Advanced Control Delivery

Inès Richard, Dang Tùng Nguyen, Fabien Sorin, Alexis Gérald Page, Shahrzad Shadman Yazdi, Govindan Narayanan Krishnamani, Jurgis Ruza, Andreas Leber

Biodegradable polymers are increasingly employed at the heart of therapeutic devices. Particularly in the form of thin and elongated fibers, they offer an effective strategy for controlled release in a variety of biomedical configurations such as sutures, ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2020

Structured nanoscale metallic glass fibres with extreme aspect ratios

Giuseppe Schiavone, Güven Kurtuldu, Inès Richard, Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Dang Tùng Nguyen, Fabien Sorin, Wei Yan, Yunpeng Qu, Vasiliki Tileli, Nicholas David James, Jordan Squair, Reinis Ignatans

Micro- and nanoscale metallic glasses offer exciting opportunities for both fundamental research and applications in healthcare, micro-engineering, optics and electronics. The scientific and technological challenges associated with the fabrication and util ...

Nature Publishing Group2020

Insights into the fabrication of sub-100 nm textured thermally drawn fibers

Inès Richard, Federica Sordo, Dang Tùng Nguyen, Fabien Sorin

The preform-to-fiber thermal drawing process has been recently proposed for the fabrication of fibers and microchannels with submicrometer surface textures. To better control the final architecture and reach small feature size down to tens of nanometers ho ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019

Integration of High-performance Optoelectronic Nanowire-based Devices at Optical Fiber Tips

Inès Richard, Fabien Sorin, Wei Yan

We establish a facile and robust approach to integrate high-performance monocrystalline semiconducting nanowire-based optoelectronic devices at optical fiber tips. The multi-functional fibers exhibit excellent optical and optoelectronic properties, leading ...

OSA Publishing2018

Assessment of solvent capsule-based healing for woven E-glass fibre-reinforced polymers

Véronique Michaud, Amaël Maximilien Cohades, Inès Richard, Erica Manfredi

Vacuum Assisted Resin Infusion Molding (VARIM) with low vacuum pressure difference was used to manufacture woven glass fibre-reinforced epoxy resin plates, with a fibre volume fraction of approx. 50 vol% and containing ethyl phenylacetate (EPA)-filled caps ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015