Publications by Federica Sordo

Edible fiber

Véronique Michaud, Francesco Stellacci, Federica Sordo, Fabien Sorin, Yunpeng Qu, Emma-Rose Janecek

The invention provides an edible fiber comprising a biopolymer and a plasticiser; wherein the weight ratio of biopolymer to plasticiser is about 1:0.25 to about 1:3; and wherein the fiber has a diameter of about 0.5 μm to about 1 mm. ...

2021

Microstructured Fibers for the Production of Food

Véronique Michaud, Francesco Stellacci, Federica Sordo, Fabien Sorin, Yunpeng Qu, Emma-Rose Janecek

Food engineering faces the difficult challenge of combining taste, i.e., tailoring texture and rheology of food matrices with the balanced intake of healthy nutrients. In materials science, fiber suspensions and composites have been developed as a versatil ...

Wiley2019

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

Advanced Multimaterial Electronic and Optoelectronic Fibers and Textiles

Federica Sordo, Dang Tùng Nguyen, Fabien Sorin, Alexis Gérald Page, Wei Yan, Yunpeng Qu

The ability to integrate complex electronic and optoelectronic functionalities within soft and thin fibers is one of today's key advanced manufacturing challenges. Multifunctional and connected fiber devices will be at the heart of the development of smart ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2019

Adhesion and interfacial healing between supramolecular hybrid networks and glass substrates

Véronique Michaud, Federica Sordo

Adhesion towards glass and interfacial healing of partially supramolecular hybrid polymer networks featuring a range of H-bdnds content were investigated through two dedicated adhesion test methods. In a first series of tests, adhesion strength was measure ...

Elsevier2017

Effect of mechanical damage and wound healing on the viscoelastic properties of stems of flax cultivars (Linum usitatissimum L. cv. Eden and cv. Drakkar)

Véronique Michaud, Sara Dalle Vacche, Federica Sordo

As plant fibres are increasingly used in technical textiles and their composites, underlying principles of wound healing in living plant fibres are relevant to product quality, and provide inspiration for biomimetic healing in synthetic materials. In this ...

Public Library of Science2017

Self-Healing Fiber-Reinforced Composites with Tailored Supramolecular Matrices

Federica Sordo

Fiber Reinforced Composites (FRCs), due to their intrinsic heterogeneity, are generally affected by complex multi-scale failure mechanisms leading to the formation of matrix cracks that are difficult to detect and repair. FRCs with the ability to heal and ...

EPFL2016

Processing and damage recovery of intrinsic self-healing glass fiber reinforced composites

Véronique Michaud, Federica Sordo

Glass fiber reinforced composites with a self-healing, supramolecular hybrid network matrix were produced using a modified vacuum assisted resin infusion moulding process adapted to high temperature processing. The quality and fiber volume fraction (50%) o ...

Institute of Physics2016

Design of Self-Healing Supramolecular Rubbers with a Tunable Number of Chemical Cross-Links

Véronique Michaud, Federica Sordo

Supramolecular rubbers incorporating a large number of physical cross-links through cooperative hydrogen bonds display high self-healing properties but limited solvent and creep resistance due to the lack of chemical cross-links. Increasing both chemical c ...

American Chemical Society2015

One-pot photoinduced synthesis of conductive polythiophene-epoxy network films

Marco Sangermano, Federica Sordo

In this paper, we describe a novel methodology for fabricating conductive epoxy-polythiophene network films by simultaneous photoinduced step-growth and cationic ring opening polymerization processes. For this purpose, formulations containing a bifunctiona ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2013

UV-Cured Epoxy-Zno Composites: Preparation and Characterization

Marco Sangermano, Federica Sordo

Epoxy-ZnO composites are prepared via UV-induced cationic polymerization. Complete unsoluble materials are achieved after 10min of irradiation. Thermal analyses shows an increase of T-g in the presence of the ZnO attributable to a strong hindrance effect o ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2013