Publications de Nicola Bartolomei

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

Design and Fabrication of Stretchable Photonic Fibers

Nicola Bartolomei

Optical fibers have reshaped the technological landscape, from optical networks and high-speed data communication to in situ imaging and non-invasive surgery methods. The revolution allowed by these fibers has been made possible by its fabrication method, ...

EPFL2021

High-efficiency super-elastic liquid metal based triboelectric fibers and textiles

Rajasundar Chandran, Dang Tùng Nguyen, Fabien Sorin, Wei Yan, Nicola Bartolomei, Yunpeng Qu, Marco Volpi, Chaoqun Dong, Andreas Leber

Fibers that harvest mechanical energy via the triboelectric effect are excellent candidates aspower sources for wearable electronics and functional textiles. Thus far however, their fab-rication remains complex, and exhibited performances are below the sta ...

Nature Research2020

Soft and stretchable liquid metal transmission lines as distributed probes of multimodal deformations

Rajasundar Chandran, Fabien Sorin, Nicola Bartolomei, Chaoqun Dong, Andreas Leber

Mechanical sensing represents a key functionality in soft electronics for applications in health monitoring, human–machine interaction, or soft robotics. Current approaches typically rely on intricate networks of sensors specific to one type of deformation ...

2020

Super-elastic multi-material optical fibers for health-care applications

Dang Tùng Nguyen, Fabien Sorin, Alexis Gérald Page, Wei Yan, Nicola Bartolomei, Yunpeng Qu, Andreas Leber

Stretchable optical and electronic fibers constitute increasingly important building blocks for a myriad of applications, particularly in robotics, soft prosthesis, surgical tools and implants, and smart medical textiles. The integration of multi-material ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Probing non-Gaussian stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds with LISA

Nicola Bartolomei, Daniel Garcia Figueroa, Valerie Fiona Domcke

The stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) contains a wealth of information on astrophysical and cosmological processes. A major challenge of upcoming years will be to extract the information contained in this background and to disentangle the con ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2018

Superelastic Multimaterial Electronic and Photonic Fibers and Devices via Thermal Drawing

Valentine Dominique Favrod, Dang Tùng Nguyen, Fabien Sorin, Alexis Gérald Page, Wei Yan, Nicola Bartolomei, Yunpeng Qu, René M. Rossi

Wiley2018

Stretchable Optical and Electronic Fibers via Thermal Drawing

Valentine Dominique Favrod, Dang Tùng Nguyen, Fabien Sorin, Alexis Gérald Page, Wei Yan, Nicola Bartolomei, Yunpeng Qu, René M. Rossi

IEEE2018