Self HealINg soft materials for susTainable prOducts

Project Information

SHINTO

Grant agreement ID: 101057960

DOI

10.3030/101057960

Project closed

EC signature date 21 March 2022

Start date 1 October 2022

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• The European Innovation Council (EIC)

Total cost

€ 2 488 500,00

EU contribution

€ 2 488 500,00

Coordinated by

VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL
Belgium

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (3)

Data Management Plan 1

Data Management Plan

Project logo and website
Intermediate report development of SH materials

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (20)

Toward Autonomous Self‐Healing in Soft Robotics: A Review and Perspective for Future Research

Author(s): Seyedreza Kashef Tabrizian, Seppe Terryn, Bram Vanderborght
Published in: Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2025, ISSN 2640-4567
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/AISY.202400790

Sub-zero self-healable and fatigue-resistant conductive ionoelastomers for sensorized soft pneumatic robots

Author(s): Wang, Yang, Zhanwei Wang, Fatma Demir, Yinxin Cai, Zijin Liu, Jing Ren, Guy Van Assche, Shengjie Ling, Bram Vanderborght, and Seppe Terryn
Published in: Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2024, ISSN 2050-7496
Publisher: RSC
DOI: 10.1039/D4TA04081C

Sustainability of self-healing polymers: A holistic perspective towards circularity in polymer networks

Author(s): Kenneth Cerdan, Marlies Thys, Aleix Costa Cornellà, Fatma Demir, Sophie Norvez, Richard Vendamme, Niko Van den Brande, Peter Van Puyvelde, Joost Brancart
Published in: Progress in Polymer Science, Issue 152, 2024, ISSN 0079-6700
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.PROGPOLYMSCI.2024.101816

Sensors

Author(s): Joost Brancart; Bram Vanderborght; Guy Van Assche; Ellen Roels; Seppe Terryn; Pasquale Ferrentino
Published in: Sensors, 2023, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/s23020811

Soft Pneumatic Gripper With Interchangeable Fingertips by Using Reversible Polymers: The GraspBerry, a Raspberry Picking Case Study

Author(s): Francesca Furia, Niccolò Pagliarani, Kai Junge, Ellen Roels, Seppe Terryn, Bram Vanderborght, Joost Brancart, Josie Hughes, Matteo Cianchetti
Published in: IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2025, ISSN 1070-9932
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2025.3577167

Variable sensitivity multimaterial robotic e-skin combining electronic and ionic conductivity using electrical impedance tomography

Author(s): Aleix Costa Cornellà, David Hardman, Leone Costi, Joost Brancart, Guy Van Assche & Fumiya Iida
Published in: Scientific reports, Issue 13, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-023-47036-5

Integrating Software-Less Reflex Mechanisms Into Soft Robots and a Versatile Gripper: A New Bistable Method

Author(s): Zhanwei Wang, Huaijin Chen, Hendrik Cools, Bram Vanderborght, Seppe Terryn
Published in: IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, 2025, ISSN 1070-9932
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2025.3537831

Toughening and stiffening in thermoreversible Diels–Alder polymer network blends

Author(s): Ali Safaei, Seppe Terryn, Bram Vanderborght, Guy Van Assche, and Joost Brancart
Published in: Macromolecules, Issue 56, 2023, ISSN 0024-9297
Publisher: ACS Publications
DOI: 10.1021/ACS.MACROMOL.2C02558

An Interdisciplinary Tutorial: A Self-Healing Soft Finger with Embedded Sensor

Author(s): Ellen Roels, Seppe Terryn, Pasquale Ferrentino, Joost Brancart, Guy Van Assche, Bram Vanderborght
Published in: Sensors, Issue 23, 2025, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/S23020811

3D-Printable Crease-Free Origami Vacuum Bending Actuators for Soft Robots

Author(s): Zhanwei Wang, Huaijin Chen, Syeda Shadab Zehra Zaidi, Ellen Roels, Hendrik Cools, Bram Vanderborght, Seppe Terryn
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Issue 41, 2025, ISSN 1552-3098
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TRO.2025.3588726

Effect of Secondary Particles on Self-Healing and Electromechanical Properties of Polymer Composites Based on Carbon Black and a Diels–Alder Network

Author(s): Fatemeh Sahraeeazartamar, Seppe Terryn, Ellen Roels, Ali Safaei, Dražan Jozić, Bram Vanderborght, Guy Van Assche, Joost Brancart
Published in: ACS Applied Polymer Materials, Issue 5, 2023, ISSN 2637-6105
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/ACSAPM.3C01043

Fast Self-Healing at Room Temperature in Diels–Alder Elastomers

Author(s): Safaei, A.; Brancart, J.; Wang, Z.; Yazdani, S.; Vanderborght, B.; Van Assche, G.; Terryn, S.
Published in: Polymers, 2023, ISSN 2073-4360
Publisher: DMPI
DOI: 10.3390/POLYM15173527

Designing flexible and self-healing electronics using hybrid carbon black/nanoclay composites based on diels–alder dynamic covalent networks

Author(s): Sahraeeazartamar, Fatemeh, Zeyu Yang, Seppe Terryn, Drazan Jozic, Bram Vanderborght, Guy Van Assche, and Joost Brancart
Published in: Macromolecules, 2024, ISSN 0974-7478
Publisher: ACS Publications
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.3c01904

Additive manufacturing of Diels-Alder self-healing polymers: Separate heating system to enhance mechanical, healing properties and assembly-free smart structures

Author(s): A. Pavone, S. Terryn, H. Abdolmaleki, A.C. Cornellà, G. Stano, G. Percoco, B. Vanderborght
Published in: Additive Manufacturing, Issue 95, 2024, ISSN 2214-8604
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.ADDMA.2024.104535

A Self-Healing Electrical Impedance Tomography Sensor for the Selective Localization of Compression and Damage Based on a Diels–Alder Conductive Composite

Author(s): Huaijin Chen, Zhanwei Wang, Fatemeh Sahraeeazartamar, Seyedreza Kashef Tabrizian, Kevin Langlois, Seppe Terryn, Bram Vanderborght
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Issue 74, 2025, ISSN 0018-9456
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2025.3598404

Controlling the Relaxation Dynamics of Polymer Networks by Combining Associative and Dissociative Dynamic Covalent Bonds

Author(s): Aleix Costa Cornellà, Francesca Furia, Guy Van Assche, Joost Brancart
Published in: Advanced Materials, Issue 36, 2024, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ADMA.202407663

Self‐Closing and Self‐Healing Multi‐Material Suction Cups for Energy‐Efficient Vacuum Grippers

Author(s): Zhanwei Wang, Seppe Terryn, Huijiang Wang, Julie Legrand, Ali Safaei, Joost Brancart, Guy Van Assche, Bram Vanderborght
Published in: Advanced Intelligent Systems, Issue 5, 2023, ISSN 2640-4567
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/AISY.202300135

Variable Stiffness, Sensing, and Healing in FESTO’s FinRay Gripper: An Industry-Driven Design

Author(s): Tabrizian, Seyedreza Kashef, Seppe Terryn, Daniel Brauchle, Jan Seyler, Joost Brancart, Guy Van Assche, and Bram Vanderborght
Published in: IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, Issue 31, 2024, ISSN 1070-9932
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/MRA.2024.3358723

SMA Wire Use in Hybrid Twisting and Bending/Extending Soft Fiber-Reinforced Actuators

Author(s): Kashef Tabrizian, Seyedreza, Fovel Cedric, Seppe Terryn, and Bram Vanderborght
Published in: Actuators, 2024, ISSN 2076-0825
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/act13040125

An Engineering Outreach Activity: How to Develop a Tendon-Based Soft Robotic Finger?

Author(s): Fatma Demir; Ellen Roels; Seppe Terryn; Bram Vanderborght
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Education, Issue 67, 2023, ISSN 0018-9359
Publisher: IEEE Education Society
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2023.3327315

Other (2)

Data Management Plan 1

Published in: 2024

Project logo and website

Published in: 2024
Publisher: ZENODO
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15848971

Conference proceedings (1)

Self-healing polymers for sustainable soft robots

Author(s): Vanderborght, B., Roels, E., Terryn, S., Sangma, R. N., Kashef Tabrizian, S., Wang, Z., Ferrentino, P., Cools, H., Steenackers, N., Mirabdollah, E., De Valckenaere, I., Brancart, J., Abdolmaleki, H., Lozano Betancur, V., Furia, F., Costa Cornellà, A., Dem
Published in: Proceedings of the ICRA40 conference Article 100003 (Materials Today Electronics; Vol. 1 (May 2022)), Issue 1, 2024
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd