Davide Tosolini
Fabrication process development of arrays for strain and pressure sensing with a flexible ionic conductive biopolymer.
Rel. Matteo Cocuzza. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Nanotechnologies For Icts (Nanotecnologie Per Le Ict), 2021
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Healthcare monitoring activities often require a device capable of recording high definition signals from muscles, nervous tissue and skin. The ability to detect local small changes on the curvilinear and dynamic surface of tissues in motion, is essential for an accurate understanding of body physiology. While rigid microelectronic often fails in this attempt because of the mechanical mismatch with soft tissues, a standard solution for this challenge relies in the use of electrode arrays fabricated on flexible platforms, in order to acquire the electrical potential at the interface of skin and biological tissue. This master thesis describes the development of a microfabricated array that, in contrast with the traditional approach, aims to measure the minute bio-mechanical pressure and strain stimuli, using SiPo (Silk & Laponite) as an active substrate.
Manufactured from silk fibroin and a nanoclay (Laponite RD), SiPo is a newly developed ionic conductive protein based polymer, which is highly adhesive, flexible and fully biocompatible and bioresorbable
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