Soft Materials Laboratory
We are part of the Institute of Materials (IMX) at EPFL. We introduce bio-inspired drop-based processes to fabricate microstructured polymeric materials that we optionally stiffen through their targeted mineralization. We characterize their structure-local composition-mechanical property relationship and exploit possibilities to use these materials in the biomedical field and as soft actuators.
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