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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

Thermally Drawn Shape and Stiffness Programmable Fibers for Medical Devices

Fabien Sorin, Andreas Leber

Despite the significant advantages of Shape Memory Polymers (SMPs), material processing and production challenges have limited their applications. Recent advances in fiber manufacturing offer a novel approach to processing polymers, broadening the function ...

2025

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

Melt-extruded light-responsive amphibious liquid crystal elastomer fibers with reprogrammable actuation modes

Fabien Sorin

Untethered liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) fiber actuators are promising candidates for soft actuators due to their analogies to biological muscles. However, most LCE fiber actuators are difficult to (re)program and primarily only work in air, which signifi ...

2025

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

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

2024

Microfluidic wet spinning of soft polydimethylsiloxane polymer optical fibers

Fabien Sorin

Polymer optical fibers (POFs) are an essential component of photonic textile sensors for the development of healthcare@home technologies. However, fabricating tailored POFs exhibiting the required properties for such applications remains challenging. Here, ...

2024

A method

Fabien Sorin, Andreas Leber

A method of manufacturing a fibre comprising a lined channel, using a draw apparatus, the method comprising: providing a preform, comprising a channel extending through the preform, to the draw apparatus; feeding a liner into the channel; heating a portion ...

2024

The Development of Aptamer-Coupled Microelectrode Fiber Sensors (apta-?FS) for Highly Selective Neurochemical Sensing

Fabien Sorin

The selective and sensitive sensing of neurochemicals is essential to decipher in-brain chemistry underlying brain pathophysiology. The recent development of flexible and multifunctional polymer-based fibers has been shown useful in recording and modulatin ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Polydimethylsiloxane based soft polymer optical fibers: From the processing-property relationship to pressure sensing applications

Fabien Sorin, Khushdeep Sharma, René M. Rossi

Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) based soft polymer optical fibers (POFs) have recently demonstrated their intriguing potential for different sensing applications like strain or temperature sensing. Recent studies have elaborated on the sensing capability of PD ...

2023

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

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

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

Self-Assembled Dewetting as a Fabrication Platform for Photonics Applications

Bastien Schyrr, Fabien Sorin, Louis Marie Philippe Martin-Monier, Pierre-Luc Eloi Piveteau, William Nicolas Duncan Esposito

A novel fabrication method based on controlled fluid re-arrangement of thin amorphous optical glass film is leveraged to realize two large-area photonics metasurfaces: 1) a highly directional nanoantenna array (metareflector), and 2) a metagrating for inde ...

IEEE2022

Thermally drawn chemically active fibre device and a method of fabrication thereof

Bastien Schyrr, Fabien Sorin

One aspect of the present invention relates to a method of fabricating a chemically active fibre device (1) by thermal drawing. The method comprises the steps of providing a preform, the preform comprising a support element (3) at least partially made of a ...

2022

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

A method

Fabien Sorin, Andreas Leber

A method of manufacturing a fibre comprising a lined channel, using a draw apparatus, the method comprising: providing a preform, comprising a channel extending through the preform, to the draw apparatus; feeding a liner into the channel; heating a portion ...

2022

Controlled filamentation instability as a scalable fabrication approach to flexible metamaterials

Fabien Sorin, Louis Marie Philippe Martin-Monier, Pierre-Luc Eloi Piveteau, William Nicolas Duncan Esposito

Long and flexible arrays of nanowires find impactful applications in sensing, photonics, and energy harvesting. Conventional manufacturing relies largely on lithographic methods limited in wafer size, rigidity, and machine write time. Here, we report a sca ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Novel insights into the design of stretchable electrical systems

Fabien Sorin, Louis Marie Philippe Martin-Monier, Pierre-Luc Eloi Piveteau

Soft electronics have recently gathered considerable interest because of their biomechanical compatibility. An important feature of deformable conductors is their electrical response to strain. While development of stretchable materials with high gauge fac ...

2021

Second harmonic generation in glass-based metasurfaces using tailored surface lattice resonances

Olivier Martin, Jérémy Butet, Dang Tùng Nguyen, Fabien Sorin, Wei Yan, Kuang-Yu Yang, Chaoqun Dong, Andreas Leber

Dielectric metasurfaces have shown prominent applications in nonlinear optics due to strong field enhancement and low dissipation losses at the nanoscale. Chalcogenide glasses are one of the promising materials for the observation of nonlinear effects than ...

2021