Description
Many biological species found in nature are equipped with extraordinary sensing systems that work on diverse sensing principles. Some of these biological sensors demonstrate a range of multifaceted functionalities that exceed the sensing capabilities of most human engineered sensors. The fundamental motivation of my research work has been to study the ubiquitous yet novel sensing principles and nanoengineering of the biological sensors in nature and apply those lessons to design micro and nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS) sensors to target a specific application. This talk will describe how the utilization of state-of-art technologies such as additive manufacturing/3D printing and electrospinning in our works resulted in the development of 1. Inner ear stereocilia inspired soft-polymer MEMS sensors for artificial cochlea applications 2. MEMS flow sensors inspired by neuromasts in blind cavefishes for use in intravenous drug infusions 3. Flexible, soft polymer strain sensors for human motion monitoring and myoelectric prosthesis. In addition, the talk will also present the advancements we made in the micro/nano sensor fabrication using nanomaterial-polymer composites to form flexible and wearable sensors and energy harvesters. Applications of such soft-polymer flexible sensors in myoelectric prosthetics and biomedical devices will be presented. The translational roadmap to bring some of these lab-developed biomimetic MEMS sensors to commercialization and formation of a start-up company will be outlined.| Periode | 5-sep.-2019 |
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| Gehouden op | ICD - Innovation Cluster Drachten, Netherlands |
| Mate van erkenning | Regional |