Smart HydroGEL SYStems – From Bioinspired Design to Soft Electronics and Machines

Project Information

GEL-SYS

Grant agreement ID: 757931

DOI 10.3030/757931

Project closed

EC signature date 1 September 2017

Start date 1 January 2018

End date 30 June 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 499 975,00

EU contribution € 1 499 975,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT LINZ
Austria

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (30)

Becoming Sustainable, The New Frontier in Soft Robotics

Author(s): Florian Hartmann, Melanie Baumgartner, Martin Kaltenbrunner
Published in: Advanced Materials, 2020, Page(s) 2004413, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Developement Organization
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202004413

Biodegradable electrohydraulic actuators for sustainable soft robots

Author(s): Ellen H. Rumley, David Preninger, Alona Shagan Shomron, Philipp Rothemund, Florian Hartmann, Melanie Baumgartner, Nicholas Kellaris, Andreas Stojanovic, Zachary Yoder, Benjamin Karrer, Christoph Keplinger, Martin Kaltenbrunner
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 9/12, 2023, Page(s) eadf555, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adf5551

Artificial neural networks and pathologists recognize basal cell carcinomas based on different histological patterns

Author(s): Susanne Kimeswenger, Philipp Tschandl, Petar Noack, Markus Hofmarcher, Elisabeth Rumetshofer, Harald Kindermann, Rene Silye, Sepp Hochreiter, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Emmanuella Guenova, Guenter Klambauer, Wolfram Hoetzenecker
Published in: Modern Pathology, 2020, ISSN 0893-3952
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41379-020-00712-7

Soft electromagnetic actuators

Author(s): Guoyong Mao, Michael Drack, Mahya Karami-Mosammam, Daniela Wirthl, Thomas Stockinger, Reinhard Schwödiauer, Martin Kaltenbrunner
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 6/26, 2020, Page(s) eabc0251, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abc0251

Scalable Microfabrication of Folded Parylene-Based Conductors for Stretchable Electronics

Author(s): Florian Hartmann; Marie Jakešová; Marie Jakešová; Guoyong Mao; Marta Nikić; Martin Kaltenbrunner; Vedran Đerek; Eric Daniel Głowacki; Eric Daniel Głowacki
Published in: Advanced Electronic Materials, Issue Vol. 7, Issue 4, 2021, Page(s) 202001236, ISSN 2199-160X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/aelm.202001236

A Numerical Approach Based on Finite Element Method for the Wrinkling Analysis of Dielectric Elastomer Membranes

Author(s): Guoyong Mao, Wei Hong, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Shaoxing Qu
Published in: Journal of Applied Mechanics - Transactions of the ASME, Issue 15289036, 2021, Page(s) 101007, ISSN 1528-9036
Publisher: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
DOI: 10.1115/1.4051212

Elastocaloric heat pump with specific cooling power of 20.9 W g–1 exploiting snap-through instability and strain-induced crystallization

Author(s): F. Greibich, R. Schwödiauer, G. Mao, D. Wirthl, M. Drack, R. Baumgartner, A. Kogler, J. Stadlbauer, S. Bauer, N. Arnold, M. Kaltenbrunner
Published in: Nature Energy, 2021, ISSN 2058-7546
Publisher: Springer Nature Limited
DOI: 10.1038/s41560-020-00770-w

An autonomous wearable biosensor powered by a perovskite solar cell

Author(s): Jihong Min, Stepan Demchyshyn, Juliane R. Sempionatto, Yu Song, Bekele Hailegnaw, Changhao Xu, Yiran Yang, Samuel Solomon, Christoph Putz, Lukas Lehner, Julia Felicitas Schwarz, Clemens Schwarzinger, Markus Scharber, Ehsan Shirzaei Sani, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Wei Gao
Published in: Nature Electronics, Issue 6, 2023, Page(s) 630–641, ISSN 2520-1131
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group UK
DOI: 10.1038/s41928-023-00996-y

Elucidating the Origins of High Preferential Crystal Orientation in Quasi‐2D Perovskite Solar Cells

Author(s): Lukas E. Lehner; Stepan Demchyshyn; Kilian Frank; Alexey Minenkov; Dominik J. Kubicki; He Sun; Bekele Hailegnaw; Christoph Putz; Felix Mayr; Munise Cobet; Günter Hesser; Wolfgang Schöfberger; Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci; Markus Clark Scharber; Bert Nickel; Martin Kaltenbrunner
Published in: Advanced Materials, Issue Vol. 35, Issue 5, 2023, Page(s) 2208061, ISSN 1521-4095
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202208061

Open Source Sensor Interface for Soft Detectors in Surgical Simulators

Author(s): Thomas Thurner; Roland Pruckner; Martin Kaltenbrunner; Andreas Schrempf
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue Vol. 11, 2023, Page(s) 49650, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/access.2023.3276444

Ion-driven nanograin formation in early-stage degradation of tri-cation perovskite films

Author(s): Filipe Richheimer; David Toth; Bekele Hailegnaw; Mark A. Baker; Robert A. Dorey; Ferry Kienberger; Fernando A. Castro; Martin Kaltenbrunner; Markus C. Scharber; Georg Gramse; Sebastian Wood
Published in: Nanoscale, Issue 14, 2022, Page(s) 2605-2616, ISSN 2040-3372
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d1nr05045a

Soft Tunable Lenses Based on Zipping Electroactive Polymer Actuators

Author(s): Florian Hartmann, Lukas Penkner, Doris Danninger, Nikita Arnold, Martin Kaltenbrunner
Published in: Advanced Science, 2020, Page(s) 2003104, ISSN 2198-3844
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202003104

Ultrafast small-scale soft electromagnetic robots

Author(s): Guoyong Mao, David Schiller, Doris Danninger, Bekele Hailegnaw, Florian Hartmann, Thomas Stockinger, Michael Drack, Nikita Arnold, Martin Kaltenbrunner
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 13/4456, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32123-4

Stretch‐Safe: Magnetic Connectors for Modular Stretchable Electronics

Author(s): Gerald Kettlgruber, Doris Danninger, Richard Moser, Michael Drack, Christian M. Siket, Daniela Wirthl, Florian Hartmann, Guoyong Mao, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Siegfried Bauer
Published in: Advanced Intelligent Systems, Issue 2/8, 2020, Page(s) 2000065, ISSN 2640-4567
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/aisy.202000065

Stretchable and Biodegradable Batteries with High Energy and Power Density

Author(s): Mahya Karami-Mosammam, Doris Danninger, David Schiller, Martin Kaltenbrunner
Published in: Advanced Materials, Issue Early View, 2022, Page(s) 2204457, ISSN 1521-4095
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202204457

Stretchable Polymerized High Internal Phase Emulsion Separators for High Performance Soft Batteries

Author(s): Doris Danninger, Florian Hartmann, Werner Paschinger, Roland Pruckner, Reinhard Schwödiauer, Stepan Demchyshyn, Alexander Bismarck, Siegfried Bauer, Martin Kaltenbrunner
Published in: Advanced Energy Materials, Issue 10/19, 2020, Page(s) 2000467, ISSN 1614-6832
Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202000467

Untethered and ultrafast soft-bodied robots

Author(s): Xu Wang, Guoyong Mao, Jin Ge, Michael Drack, Gilbert Santiago Cañón Bermúdez, Daniela Wirthl, Rico Illing, Tobias Kosub, Lothar Bischoff, Changan Wang, Jürgen Fassbender, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Denys Makarov
Published in: Communications Materials, Issue 1/1, 2020, ISSN 2662-4443
Publisher: Springer-Verlag GmbH
DOI: 10.1038/s43246-020-00067-1

A Lesson from Plants: High‐Speed Soft Robotic Actuators

Author(s): Richard Baumgartner, Alexander Kogler, Josef M. Stadlbauer, Choon Chiang Foo, Rainer Kaltseis, Melanie Baumgartner, Guoyong Mao, Christoph Keplinger, Soo Jin Adrian Koh, Nikita Arnold, Zhigang Suo, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Siegfried Bauer
Published in: Advanced Science, Issue 7/5, 2020, Page(s) 1903391, ISSN 2198-3844
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/advs.201903391

Proteinogenic Amino Acid Assisted Preparation of Highly Luminescent Hybrid Perovskite Nanoparticles

Author(s): Anna Jancik Prochazkova, Stepan Demchyshyn, Cigdem Yumusak, Jiří Másilko, Oliver Brüggemann, Martin Weiter, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci, Jozef Krajcovic, Yolanda Salinas, Alexander Kovalenko
Published in: ACS Applied Nano Materials, Issue 2/7, 2019, Page(s) 4267-4274, ISSN 2574-0970
Publisher: ACS Publications
DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.9b00725

X-ray study of anisotropically shaped metal halide perovskite nanoparticles in tubular pores

Author(s): Janina Melanie Roemer, Stepan Demchyshyn, Anton Böhm, Olof Gutowski, Kilian Frank, Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Bert Nickel
Published in: Applied Physics Letters, Issue 113/25, 2018, Page(s) 251901, ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.5054271

Direct writing of anodic oxides for plastic electronics

Author(s): Christian Michael Siket, Nadine Tillner, Andrei Ionut Mardare, Amir Reuveny, Carina Daniela Grill, Florian Hartmann, Gerald Kettlgruber, Richard Moser, Jan Philipp Kollender, Takao Someya, Achim Walter Hassel, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Siegfried Bauer
Published in: npj Flexible Electronics, Issue 2/1, 2018, ISSN 2397-4621
Publisher: npj Flexible Electronics
DOI: 10.1038/s41528-018-0036-y

Meant to merge: Fabrication of stretchy electronics for robotics

Author(s): Florian Hartmann, Michael Drack, Martin Kaltenbrunner
Published in: Science Robotics, Issue 3/18, 2018, Page(s) eaat9091, ISSN 2470-9476
Publisher: AAAS
DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.aat9091

The importance of open and frugal labware

Author(s): Michael Drack, Florian Hartmann, Siegfried Bauer, Martin Kaltenbrunner
Published in: Nature Electronics, Issue 1/9, 2018, Page(s) 484-486, ISSN 2520-1131
Publisher: Springer Nature Publishing AG
DOI: 10.1038/s41928-018-0133-x

A bimodal soft electronic skin for tactile and touchless interaction in real time

Author(s): Jin Ge, Xu Wang, Michael Drack, Oleksii Volkov, Mo Liang, Gilbert Santiago Cañón Bermúdez, Rico Illing, Changan Wang, Shengqiang Zhou, Jürgen Fassbender, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Denys Makarov
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 10/1, 2019, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12303-5

iSens: A Fiber-Based, Highly Permeable and Imperceptible Sensor Design

Author(s): Thomas Stockinger, Daniela Wirthl, Guoyong Mao, Michael Drack, Roland Pruckner, Stepan Demchyshyn, Melanie Steiner, Florian Egger, Uwe Müller, Reinhard Schwödiauer, Siegfried Bauer, Nikita Arnold, Martin Kaltenbrunner
Published in: Advanced Materials, Issue 33, 2021, Page(s) 2102736, ISSN 1521-4095
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202102736

MycelioTronics: Fungal mycelium skin for sustainable electronics

Author(s): Doris Danninger, Roland Pruckner, Laura Holzinger, Robert Koeppe, Martin Kaltenbrunner
Published in: Science Advances, Issue 8/45, 2022, Page(s) eadd7118, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.add7118

Body Temperature-Triggered Mechanical Instabilities for High-Speed Soft Robots

Author(s): Josef M. Stadlbauer, Wolfgang Haderer, Ingrid Graz, Nikita Arnold, Martin Kaltenbrunner, and Siegfried Bauer
Published in: Soft Robotics, Issue 9/1, 2022, Page(s) 128-134, ISSN 2169-5180
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert.Inc
DOI: 10.1089/soro.2020.0092

3D printing of resilient biogels for omnidirectional and exteroceptive soft actuators

Author(s): Andreas Heiden, David Preninger, Lukas Lehner, Melanie Baumgartner, Michael Drack, Elias Woritzka, David Schiller, Robert Gerstmayr, Florian Hartmann, Martin Kaltenbrunner
Published in: Science Robotics, Issue 7/63, 2022, ISSN 2470-9476
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.abk2119

Resilient yet entirely degradable gelatin-based biogels for soft robots and electronics

Author(s): Melanie Baumgartner, Florian Hartmann, Michael Drack, David Preninger, Daniela Wirthl, Robert Gerstmayr, Lukas Lehner, Guoyong Mao, Roland Pruckner, Stepan Demchyshyn, Lisa Reiter, Moritz Strobel, Thomas Stockinger, David Schiller, Susanne Kimeswenger, Florian Greibich, Gerda Buchberger, Elke Bradt, Sabine Hild, Siegfried Bauer, Martin Kaltenbrunner
Published in: Nature Materials, Issue 19/10, 2020, Page(s) 1102-1109, ISSN 1476-1122
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-020-0699-3

Designing Ultraflexible Perovskite X‐Ray Detectors through Interface Engineering

Author(s): Stepan Demchyshyn, Matteo Verdi, Laura Basiricò, Andrea Ciavatti, Bekele Hailegnaw, Daniela Cavalcoli, Markus Clark Scharber, Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci, Martin Kaltenbrunner, Beatrice Fraboni
Published in: Advanced Science, Issue 7/24, 2020, Page(s) 2002586, ISSN 2198-3844
Publisher: John Wiley & sons, Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/advs.202002586