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Super-elastic multi-material optical fibers for health-care applications

Bartolomei, Nicola  
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Qu, Yunpeng  
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Tung Nguyen Dang  
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January 1, 2019
Optical Fibers And Sensors For Medical Diagnostics And Treatment Applications Xix
Conference on Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications XIX

Stretchable optical and electronic fibers constitute increasingly important building blocks for a myriad of applications, particularly in robotics, soft prosthesis, surgical tools and implants, and smart medical textiles. The integration of multi-material architectures and complex functionalities within soft fibers has however for a long time remained difficult to achieve, limiting the performance and functionalities of medical fibers and textiles. In this contribution, we will show how the thermal drawing process used to fabricate optical fibers, and traditionally associated with rigid glasses or thermoplastic, can be applied to a certain class of thermoplastic elastomers. We will demonstrate that optical polymers, liquid metals, and conductive polymer composites could be co-drawn with prescribed architectures within a thermoplastic elastomer cladding. This allowed us to successfully fabricate super-elastic fibers with complex optical as well as electronic functionalities relevant for a myriad of applications in health-care. We will show in particular how such fibers can be used as precise and robust pressure, strain or more generally deformation sensors that can be seamlessly integrated within surgical tools, prosthesis, fabrics or robots. We will also discuss their potential as advanced optical probes, regenerative scaffolds or stimulating implants. This work opens novel opportunities for sensing and monitoring, scaffolds and implants, medical robotics and personalized care.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1117/12.2510697
Web of Science ID

WOS:000470015100012

Author(s)
Bartolomei, Nicola  
Qu, Yunpeng  
Tung Nguyen Dang  
Yan, Wei  
Page, Alexis G.  
Das Gupta, Tapajyoti
Leber, Andreas  
Sorin, Fabien  
Date Issued

2019-01-01

Publisher

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING

Publisher place

Bellingham

Published in
Optical Fibers And Sensors For Medical Diagnostics And Treatment Applications Xix
ISBN of the book

978-1-5106-2387-3

Series title/Series vol.

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging; 10872

Start page

108720M

Subjects

Engineering, Biomedical

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Optics

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Engineering

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multi-material fibers

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fiber processing

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stretchable optical fibers

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thermal drawing

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smart textiles

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optical fibers

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micro and nano-fabrication

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REVIEWED

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Conference on Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications XIX

San Francisco, CA

Feb 02-03, 2019

Available on Infoscience
June 15, 2019
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/156814
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