Publications associées à Synthetic setae

Thermally Drawn CNT-Based Hybrid Nanocomposite Fiber for Electrochemical Sensing

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

Design and Development of Injectable, Tough and Intrinsically-Adhesive Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications

Peyman Karami

Despite the development of hydrogels with a wide range of mechanical properties, insufficient adhesion between these materials and biological surfaces limits their use in the biomedical applications. Most recent advancements in highly adhesive hydrogel sys ...

EPFL2021

Atom-surface van der Waals potentials of topological insulators and semimetals from scattering measurements

Davide Campi

The phenomenology of resonant scattering has been known since the earliest experiments upon scattering of atomic beams from surfaces and is a means of obtaining experimental information about the fundamentals of weak adsorption systems in the van der Waals ...

2021

Review of fatigue of bulk structural adhesives and thick adhesive joints

Anastasios Vassilopoulos

Fatigue of structural adhesives has been investigated through joints and a little number of works investigate bulk adhesive behaviour itself. Aerospace and automotive engineering focuses more on joint configuration studies, which are correlated with practi ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2021

Light-Activated, Bioadhesive, Poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate) Brush Coatings

Dominique Pioletti, Harm-Anton Klok, Peyman Karami, Jian Wang, Nariye Cavusoglu Ataman

Rapid adhesion between tissue and synthetic materials is relevant to accelerate wound healing and to facilitate the integration of implantable medical devices. Most frequently, tissue adhesives are applied as a gel or a liquid formulation. This manuscript ...

American Chemical Society2020

Depletion Effect-mediated Association of Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Composites and Their Application as Inexpensive Electrode Support Materials

Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhangjun Huang

The association between carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and polymers to afford functional composites has been attributed to enthalpic interactions, neglecting the entropic depletion effect, in which bound solvents are released during the association process. Here, ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells of Single Crystal Hybrid Halide Perovskite with Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes Contacts

László Forró, Endre Horvath, Andrzej Sienkiewicz, Bálint Náfrádi, Márton Kollár, Pavao Roko Andricevic, Xavier François Mettan, Tonko Garma

Based on the reported ion migration under an electric field in hybrid lead halide perovskites we have developed a bright, light-emitting electrochemical cell with CH3NH3PbBr3 single crystals directly grown on vertically aligned carbon nanotube forests as c ...

2019

Three-Dimensionally Enlarged Photoelectrodes by a Protogenetic Inclusion of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes into CH3NH3PbBr3 Single Crystals

László Forró, Endre Horvath, Andrzej Sienkiewicz, Bálint Náfrádi, Pavao Roko Andricevic, Márton Kollár, Xavier François Mettan, Klara Hernadi

We demonstrate that single crystals of methylammonium lead bromide (MAPbBr(3)) could be grown directly on vertically aligned carbon nanotube (VACNT) forests. The fast-growing MAPbBr3 single crystals engulfed the protogenetic inclusions in the form of indiv ...

2017

Potential routes to stronger carbon nanotube fibres via carbon ion irradiation and deposition

William Curtin, Daniel Mulvihill

Fibres made from carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have not yet achieved strengths approaching that of individual CNTs. The problem is that load is not effectively transferred between the constituent, discontinuous CNTs. High energy irradiation has shown promise on ...

Elsevier2016

An 8-mm diameter fibre robot positioner for massive spectroscopy surveys

Denis Gillet, Hannes Bleuler, Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Mohamed Bouri, Laleh Makarem, Laurent Frédéric Jenni

Massive spectroscopic survey are becoming trendy in astrophysics and cosmology, as they can address new fundamental knowledge such as understanding the formation of the Milky Way and probing the nature of the mysterious dark energy. To enable massive spect ...

Oxford University Press2015

Challenges and Rewards of the Electrosynthesis of Macroscopic Aligned Carbon Nanotube Array/Conducting Polymer Hybrid Assemblies

László Forró, Endre Horvath, Andrea Pisoni, Péter Krisztián Matus, Klara Hernadi

Hybrid assemblies based on conducting polymers and carbon nanomaterials with organized nanoscale structure are excellent candidates for various application schemes ranging from thermal management to electrochemical energy conversion and storage. In the cas ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

A theoretical quantification of the possible improvement in the mechanical properties of carbon nanotube bundles by carbon ion irradiation

William Curtin

Improvement of single wall carbon nanotube (CNT) bundle mechanical properties through carbon ion irradiation is investigated using molecular dynamics. Increased inter-tube shear and toughness properties through formation of inter-tube cross-links is balanc ...

Elsevier2013

Comparison of Two Different Carbon Nanotube-based Surfaces with Respect to Potassium Ferricyanide Electrochemistry

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, Irene Taurino

This paper describes the electrochemical investigation of two multi-walled carbon nanotube-based electrodes using potassium ferricyanide as a benchmark redox system. Carbon nanotubes were fabricated by chemical vapor deposition on silicon wafer with campho ...

2012

Climbing robot with thermal glue

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Frédéric Rochat, Thierry Barras, Vitalis Hirschmann

Climbing robots require an adhesion principle in order to overcome gravity. Many physical principles have been used. In this work, the use of thermal glue is proposed. The implementation of miniature thermal glue dispenser is presented with experimental re ...

World Scientific2011

Surface Assembly of Catechol-Functionalized Poly(l-lysine)-graft-poly(ethylene glycol) Copolymer on Titanium Exploiting Combined Electrostatically Driven Self-Organization and Biomimetic Strong Adhesion

Cyril Portmann, Karl Gademann

Nonfouling coatings, based on surface-tethered, hydrophilic polymer chains, have widespread application in areas such as biosensing, medical devices, and biotechnology. Self-organization of polymers is a particularly attractive approach given its simplicit ...

American Chemical Society2010

Tunable MEMS capacitors using vertical carbon nanotube arrays grown on metal lines

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Montserrat Fernandez-Bolanos Badia, Donatello Acquaviva, Anupama Arun

In this work, tunable MEMS capacitors are realized using a vertically grown carbon nanotube array. The vertical CNT array forms an effective CNT membrane, which can be electrostatically actuated like the conventional metal plates used in MEMS capacitors. T ...

2010

All-optical switching in an optofluidic polydimethylsiloxane: Liquid crystal grating defined by cast-molding

Demetri Psaltis, Andreas Vasdekis, Julien Cuennet, Luciano De Sio

We report an optofluidic photoswitchable grating, based on a polydimethylsiloxane periodic structure on a glass substrate, separated by a thin liquid crystal film. The polydimethylsiloxane microstructure was realized via high resolution replica molding and ...

2010

Estimation of interfacial fracture toughness based on progressive edge delamination of a thin transparent coating on a polymer substrate

Yves Leterrier

Evaluation of interfacial toughness of sub-micron-thickness layers deposited on a ductile substrate is a challenging task which has motivated different experimental approaches Fragmentation testing was used in the present study as a means of interface char ...

Elsevier2010

Magnetic wheels optimization and application to the MagneBike climbing robot

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Fabien Tâche, Frédéric Rochat, Patrick Schoeneich

Magnetic wheels are a powerful solution to design inspection climbing robots with excellent mobility. Magnetic wheels optimization based on simulations and the results that were obtained on prototypes are presented. The measured adhesion was doubled betwee ...

World Scientific2010

A point-wise model of adhesion suitable for real-time applications of bio-inspired climbing robot

Auke Ijspeert

Bio-inspired climbing robots relying on adhesion systems are believed to become essential tools for several industrial applications in the near future. In recent years, research has mainly focused on modeling micro-scale adhesion phenomena; a macro-scale a ...

2008