Publications by Hritwick Banerjee

Multimaterial Shape Memory Polymer Fibers for Advanced Drug Release Applications

Fabien Sorin, Stella Andréa Françoise Laperrousaz, Chaoqun Dong, Pierre-Luc Eloi Piveteau, Hritwick Banerjee

Stimuli-responsive polymers offer unprecedented control over drug release in implantable delivery systems. Shape memory polymer fibers (SMPFs), with their large specific surface area and programmable properties, present promising alternatives for triggerab ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Soft Multi-Material Magnetic Fibers and Textiles with Integrated Sensing for Assisting Rehabilitation and Soft Orthoses*

Fabien Sorin, Stella Andréa Françoise Laperrousaz, Hritwick Banerjee

Soft mechanical sensors and actuators have revolutionized fields such as health monitoring, human-machine interaction, and soft robotics. However, existing fabrication methods, including 3D printing, molding and casting, lithography, and particle flow spin ...

IEEE2025

Thermally drawn multi-material fibers: From fundamental research to industrial applications

Fabien Sorin, Stella Andréa Françoise Laperrousaz, Hritwick Banerjee, Xin Chen

2024

Soft Multimaterial Magnetic Fibers and Textiles

Fabien Sorin, Syrine Mansour, Stella Andréa Françoise Laperrousaz, Chaoqun Dong, Andreas Leber, Hritwick Banerjee, Xue Wan, Rémi Andréa La Polla

Magnetically responsive soft materials are promising building blocks for the next generation of soft robotics, prosthesis, surgical tools, and smart textiles. To date, however, the fabrication of highly integrated magnetic fibers with extreme aspect ratios ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Highly Stretchable Flame-Retardant Skin for Soft Robotics with Hydrogel-Montmorillonite-Based Translucent Matrix

Hritwick Banerjee

Flame-retardant coatings are crucial for intelligent systems operating in high-temperature (300-800 degrees C) scenarios, which typically involve multi-joint discrete or continuous kinematic systems. These multi-segment motion generation systems call for c ...

MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC2022

Highly Integrated Multi-Material Fibers for Soft Robotics

Bastien Schyrr, Fabien Sorin, Nicola Bartolomei, Stella Andréa Françoise Laperrousaz, Chaoqun Dong, Andreas Leber, Hritwick Banerjee

Soft robots are envisioned as the next generation of safe biomedical devices in minimally invasive procedures. Yet, the difficulty of processing soft materials currently limits the size, aspect-ratio, manufacturing throughput, as well as, the design comple ...

WILEY2022

3D stretchable and self-encapsulated multimaterial triboelectric fibers

Fabien Sorin, Stella Andréa Françoise Laperrousaz, Chaoqun Dong, Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis, Andreas Leber, Dong Yan, Hritwick Banerjee

A robust power device for wearable technologies and soft electronics must feature good encapsulation, high deformability, and reliable electrical outputs. Despite substantial progress in materials and architectures for two-dimensional (2D) planar power con ...

2022

Stretchable and Sensitive Silver Nanowire-Hydrogel Strain Sensors for Proprioceptive Actuation

Hritwick Banerjee

Safer human-robot interactions mandate the adoption of proprioceptive actuation. Strain sensors can detect the deformation of tools and devices in unstructured and capricious environments. However, such sensor integration in surgical/clinical settings is c ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021