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Bos, Joris (author)Electroactive polymers (EAPs) are smart materials that have electromechanical and mechanoelectrical transduction properties. They are flexible, lightweight, easy to shape and cheap to produce. These properties allow EAPs to be used as actuators or sensors in applications such as soft robotics, metamaterial structures, or other future...master thesis 2022
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Onderdelinden, Suzanne (author)In the last few years organ-on-chip (OoC) has been emerging as a new method for more reliable research to screen the effects of new drugs on the body. This is a novel technology mimicking the in vivo environment of tissue cells, making it a more suitable candidate for experimentation than traditional 2D cell cultures. However, in order to ensure...master thesis 2020
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Freriks, Mirte (author)Future consumer products, medical devices and manufacturing processes can benefit from systems with a high number and a high density of individually controlled actuators that are flexible and use little energy, materials and space. These systems with a high count and high density of actuators can be addressed as distributed actuation systems. In...master thesis 2019
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Boerefijn, Leroy (author)Autonomous microrobots ‘swimming’ through bodily fluids promise a major breakthrough in the fields of medicine and surgery. Targeted drug delivery, ablations, stents, implants, and remote sensing applications are among the envisioned applications. One of the biggest challenges in the design of these devices is the propulsion actuator. Within...master thesis 2017
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Timmerman, R.R. (author)Most conventional actuation methods have a very limited degree of freedom, simply moving from point A to B. In contrast to the concept of distributed actuation which divides up actuation in such a way that a networked structure of smaller actuators operating in tandem is able to take on various forms. Previous research by other groups has...master thesis 2017