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SUMMARY:Becoming sustainable\, the new frontier in soft electronics and ro
 botics
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dr. Martin Kaltenbrunner\nJohannes Kepler University Lin
 z\nInstitute of Microengineering - Distinguished Lecture\n\nDue to the cov
 id-19 restrictions currently in place\, the lecture will take place remote
 ly by zoom only.\n\nZoom Live Stream: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/841073972\n\n
 Abstract: The advancement of technology has a profound and far-reaching im
 pact on our society\, now penetrating all areas of our life. From cradle t
 o grave\, we are supported by and depend on a wide range of electronic and
  robotic appliances\, with an ever more intimate integration of the digita
 l and biological spheres. These advances however often come at the price o
 f negatively impacting our ecosystem\, with growing demands on energy\, co
 ntributions to greenhouse gas emissions and environmental pollution - from
  production to improper disposal. Mitigating these adverse effects is amon
 gst the grand challenges of our society and at the forefront of materials 
 research. The currently emerging forms of soft\, biologically inspired ele
 ctronics and robotics have the unique potential of becoming not only like 
 their natural antitypes in performance and capabilities\, but also in term
 s of their ecological footprint.\nThis talk introduces materials and metho
 ds including tough yet biodegradable biogels for soft systems that facilit
 ate a broad range of applications\, from transient wearable electronics to
  metabolizable soft robots. These embodiments are reversibly stretchable\,
  are able to heal and are resistant to dehydration. Our forms of soft elec
 tronics and robots – built from resilient biogels with tunable mechanica
 l properties – are designed for prolonged operation in ambient condition
 s without fatigue\, but fully degrade after use through biological trigger
 s. Electronic skins merged with imperceptible foil technologies provide se
 nsory feedback such as pressure\, strain\, temperature and humidity sensin
 g in combination with untethered data processing and communication through
  a recyclable on-board computation unit. Such advances in the synthesis of
  biodegradable\, mechanically tough and stable iono-and hydrogels may brin
 g bionic soft systems a step closer to nature. Pushing the boundaries furt
 her\, design concepts for fast actuation in soft robotics systems\, from e
 xploiting mechanical instabilities to leveraging magnetic interactions on 
 the millimeter scale are introduced.\n\nBio: Kaltenbrunner is a full profe
 ssor at the Johannes Kepler University\, heading the Soft Matter Physics D
 ivision and the LIT Soft Materials Lab. He received his master’s and PhD
  degrees in physics from the Johannes Kepler University in 2008 and 2012\,
  respectively. He then joined the Someya-Sekitani Lab for Organic Electron
 ics at The University of Tokyo as postdoctoral researcher prior to his pre
 sent position. Kaltenbrunner’s research interests include soft electroni
 cs and machines\, biodegradable soft materials\, photovoltaics\, lightning
  and thin film transistors\, soft transducers and robotics\, flexible and 
 stretchable electronics\, and electronic skin.\n 
LOCATION:Online https://epfl.zoom.us/j/841073972 https://epfl.zoom.us/j/84
 1073972
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