Project description
Adaptive screens with smart materials
Smart technologies have improved accessibility and ease of use of digital technologies. Several novel solutions now provide improved sensing or interaction capabilities, extending their possibilities. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the RETINA project will develop a revolutionary material platform for adaptive screens that feature displays offering exceptional haptic and sensing capabilities. The project will leverage recent advances in entrained stimuli responsiveness and liquid crystalline materials, providing better connections between functions and improved smart responsiveness, thanks to liquid crystal elastomers (LCE). The use of polymer-dispersed chiral liquid crystals and printed electrodes on LCE substrates will further enhance adaptiveness. The results are expected to lead to breakthroughs in soft robotics and smart materials.
Objective
The ambitious MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Project RETINA (REsponsive, interacTINg screen based on smArt materials) will create a novel material platform for adaptive screen possessing display, haptics and sensing functionalities. The scientific excitement is based on an exceptionally novel concept of entrained stimuli-responsiveness, which brings about programmed connections between all functions. The technical key is the liquid crystalline (LC) materials that will provide the smart responsiveness, i.e. human-body temperature actuated liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) for haptics, polymer dispersed chiral liquid crystal (PDCLC) for color display and printed electrodes on LCE substrate for adaptive soft electronics. Coupling between different stimuli, i.e. force, heat and electric fields, enables the screen’s performances highly interactive and adaptive. The project output – a pixelized display prototype, with measurable performances – will open new great opportunities in the field of soft robotics and smart materials. This training-through-research during the RETINA will propel my independent academic career with a goal of achieving young group leadership and becoming a tenure track professor.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships
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33100 Tampere
Finland
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