SenFlex: the first truly smart and flexible fiber sensor

Informacje na temat projektu

SENFLEX

Identyfikator umowy o grant: 842349

DOI

10.3030/842349

Projekt został zamknięty

Data podpisania przez KE 26 Lutego 2019

Data rozpoczęcia 1 Marca 2019

Data zakończenia 28 Lutego 2021

Finansowanie w ramach

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Koszt całkowity

€ 150 000,00

Wkład UE

€ 150 000,00

Koordynowany przez

ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE
Switzerland

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SENFLEX (SenFlex: the first truly smart and flexible fiber sensor)

Okres sprawozdawczy: 2019-03-01 do 2021-02-28

Podsumowanie kontekstu i ogólnych celów projektu

Soft and smart fibers are envisioned as an important building block for the next generation of soft electronic systems and smart textiles. The thermal drawing of soft multi-material fibers has been identified as an approach of choice to generate advanced fibers capable of complex functionalities. This manufacturing approach is scalable yet required to overcome important milestones to bring this proven technology in the laboratory, into industrial products. In the SenFlex project, we developed three technological aspects that we had diagnosed as important blocks to alleviated to bring the technology to an industrial interest: (1) improve the fiber performance in terms of design and sensitivity; (2) to increase the fabrication yield; and (3) to develop a strategy for fiber electrical connections within a product. During the period of the project, working with a postdoctoral associate and then a doctoral student, we could significantly advance the types of fibers that can be fabricated with novel and state-of-the art performance as deformation sensors, publishing three articles in top materials science and electronics journals. We could demonstrate the fabrication of hundreds of meters of soft fibers, and identified two approaches used in industrial prototypes for fiber connections. Beyond these three objectives, we also could identify promising markets and products developments avenues, including the composite sector and the area of health care and sleep monitoring. We have launched a project with a company to develop a prototype of a smart mattress, as a direct result of the advances made in the SenFlex project.